Before the attack in Hanau: Tobias R. threatened prostitutes – but the police were probably only interested in whether they were working legally

Created: 05/16/2022, 11:04 am

By: Gregor Haschnik, Franziska Seliger

After the attack in Hanau, people express their grief at the Brothers Grimm memorial.

The assassin Tobias R. is said to have stayed in Iffeldorf about a year earlier and threatened an escort lady there.

© Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa

On February 19, 2020, Tobias R. from Hanau murdered several people for racist reasons.

As has now become public, an escort lady had already been threatened by R. in Iffeldorf in 2018.

Hanau/Iffeldorf – When the assassin from Hanau, Hesse, scared an escort lady to death in a holiday apartment in Bavaria in 2018, the police responsible are said to have not followed up their tips properly.

The apartment is said to have been near Iffeldorf, as the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) writes.

Dealing with the woman also raises questions, as can be seen from investigation files evaluated by the Frankfurter Rundschau.

Accordingly, in an interrogation by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in September 2021, the woman criticized that one of the police officers who had been called at the time said: "Yes, should we search the whole house for weapons" - after she had heard about the threat and a gun and a knife that the later terrorist is said to have shown her.

Hanau assassin: prostitute had the impression that the police did not believe her

All in all, it was primarily about whether she was legally engaged in prostitution, and hardly about her descriptions.

In addition, it was mentioned several times that certain sexual preferences are not prohibited.

She had the impression that no one believed her, the witness said.

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The incident near Iffeldorf became public in April in the investigative committee of the Hessian state parliament.

The committee is to clarify what mistakes the Hessian authorities have made.

At that time, a BKA chief inspector testified that the assassin is said to have presented the sex worker with bondage and SM utensils and a script that ended with a woman dead.

She then asked an acquaintance via cell phone to alert the police.

This made sure that the woman could walk, but only found a joint rest of the Hanauer.

He was then only investigated for violating the Narcotics Act, not for threats.

Later assassin from Hanau threatened prostitutes: call for help from the toilet

The documents reveal more details.

The man is said not to have behaved like a Nazi that night, but said he was anti-refugees.

According to the woman, he was of the opinion that a sinking boat should be allowed to sink and that nobody should be taken on board.

The knife and gun were for hunting, he claimed.

The sex toys he spread out looked like enormous violence.

For fear of being caught, the woman wrote to her acquaintance from the toilet.

Tobias R. turned on a camera and asked her to dance as if it were the last time.

He was referring to a horror film in which a woman's body is found at the end.

Prostitute reports about later attackers from Hanau: He was like a psychopath

He was like a psychopath, saying it wouldn't matter if she was missed someday.

Then he would be gone.

She was in panic and fear of death.

The police came soon after.

The woman was later reported for prostitution in a restricted area.

At the time, the woman suggested that it was Tobias R. who reported her.

The case was eventually dropped, but she had to pay for the attorney's fees.

The later assassin from Hanau probably burned evidence after meeting a prostitute

As the SZ reported in its Thursday edition, it is said that there was a fire in a forest east of Munich on August 8, 2018 – one day before the escort lady was reported.

The alarmed officials found a stack of charred porn magazines at the scene of the fire.

A car was parked nearby, and Tobias R. was identified as the owner.

It is conceivable that he wanted to remove the evidence of his sexual preferences before reporting the woman.

The responsible police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South did not comment on the incident near Iffeldorf at the request of the Frankfurter Rundschau at the end of April.

The investigations have been completed and the files are with the Munich public prosecutor's office.

This announced that the documents would be sought out and that they would comment shortly.

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