Fatal accident in Ostend Frankfurt: Raser accused of double murder

Created: 03/09/2022, 16:40

By: Oliver Teutsch

After the accident in November 2020, two destroyed cars are on the side of the road in Frankfurt's Ostend and are being examined by the police.

The process against the suspected cause of the accident is now beginning.

(Archive) © Silas Stein/dpa

A murder trial against a 39-year-old man who is said to have killed two people with his car is about to begin in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt – Around a year and a half after a fatal accident in Frankfurt's Ostend*, a speeder has to answer for murder.

The Frankfurt Regional Court* allowed the prosecutor's office to state that the 39-year-old "at least accepted the death of a 27-year-old bicycle courier and a 61-year-old pedestrian at the heavily frequented accident site" on November 21, 2020.

According to the regional court, the trial against the man, who has been in custody for a year, should be on April 5th, as reported by fr.de *.

After the fatal accident, the driver was initially determined for negligent homicide.

In the course of the investigation, however, there were indications that the 38-year-old caused the accident "not negligently, but intentionally," the Frankfurt public prosecutor is convinced.

The 38-year-old is said to have manually switched off a system responsible for stabilizing the vehicle (dynamic stability control) on his 625-hp BMW X6 before setting off on November 21.

Murder trial in Frankfurt: Raser is said to have drifted before a fatal impact

The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt further accuses the accused of having accelerated sharply at two traffic lights before the accident on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse and, when entering a curve on Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse, pressed the gas pedal almost completely and initiated a drift* in order to reach the highest possible speed and impress others with his risky driving behavior.

Since he had switched off the vehicle's stabilization system, the rear of the car broke out during the driving maneuver, causing the car, weighing several tons, to be thrown onto a bicycle lane running parallel to the roadway.

Section 211, Murder

(1) The murderer

shall be punished with life imprisonment.

anyone who kills a human being out of lust for murder, to satisfy their sex drive, out of greed or other base motives, insidiously or cruelly or with means dangerous to the public, or in order to make another crime possible or to cover it up.

According to an expert report, the public prosecutor assumes that the vehicle hit the courier driver and the two pedestrians at a speed of 82 kilometers per hour.

In addition to the two fatally injured, the vehicle also hit the 31-year-old daughter of the 61-year-old, who suffered broken bones all over her body.

According to a report, the then 38-year-old was neither under the influence of alcohol nor was he under drugs while driving.

However, the man is not a blank slate on the road.

Several fines are said to have been imposed on him for conspicuous behavior, insult and drunkenness.

Fatal accident in Frankfurt's Ostend: Raser has to answer for two murders

Murder convictions against speeders are uncommon and difficult to prove in court.

The driver must be proven at least conditional intent to kill a person.

After a car race on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm in February 2016, the Berlin Regional Court had convicted two men of murder because they ran several red traffic lights and a 69-year-old driver died in a collision.

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) confirmed the judgment in June 2020, at least against the main defendant, whose vehicle had collided with that of the 69-year-old.

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The public prosecutor's office accuses the speeder in Ostend of two counts of murder, dangerous bodily harm and prohibited motor vehicle racing.

The 21st Trial Chamber found this charge plausible and admitted it without qualification.

In the initially scheduled ten days of the trial, a number of witnesses will have to remember the incident.

A technical expert is also invited to evaluate the frenzy of the 39-year-old.

(Oliver Teutsch) *