Fatal race on Ku'damm: judgment against speeders confirmed
Created: 2022-01-26 13:19
Vehicle parts lie on the road after an illegal car race and subsequent accident.
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The verdict for attempted murder against the second Ku'damm racer from 2016 is final.
The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe rejected an appeal as unfounded, as announced on Wednesday regarding the decision of January 19.
The Berlin district court sentenced the man to 13 years in prison on March 2, 2021 for attempted murder.
The BGH had rejected two previous convictions for murder.
On February 1, 2016, two young men raced their cars on Berlin's Ku'damm.
They raced across the street at up to 170 kilometers per hour and ignored several red lights.
One driver rammed the car of an uninvolved man who had driven into the intersection when the light was green.
The 69-year-old pensioner's small jeep was thrown 70 meters and the occupant died.
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The first speeder who collided with the jeep has already been convicted of murder.
The second speeder who didn't crash into the Jeep was also convicted of murder in 2017 and 2019.
However, the BGH did not see the man as having made a joint decision to commit the crime and thus complicity.
In the third trial against the man, the district court ruled in March 2021 that the man had accepted the deadly consequences.
He consciously took the risk in order not to lose the race.
The fact that his car did not collide with the jeep "depended on an absolute coincidence".
However, he was “not to be blamed for the death as a co-perpetrator”.
The driver's actions must be classified as attempted murder.
That judgment now stands.
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