Police murder near Kusel: After shots at Yasmin B. and Alexander K. - murder trial begins on Tuesday

Created: 06/20/2022, 12:46 p.m

Rhineland-Palatinate, Kusel: A wooden cross and candles stand on a country road between Kusel and Ulmet at a memorial for the two police officers killed.

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After the double murder of two police officers near Kusel at the beginning of this year, the alleged suspect Andreas S. has to answer before the Kaiserslautern district court on Tuesday.

Kaiserslautern – Two police officers were shot dead during a police check on January 31, 2022 in the Palatinate.

The act caused great horror across Germany.

The murder trial for the fatal shots at police commissioner candidate Yasmin B. and police commissioner Alexander K. begins on Tuesday (June 21) in the Kaiserslautern district court.

The suspected gunman is no stranger to police.

Murder trial for fatal shots at two police officers near Kusel begins

In May 2022, the public prosecutor's office in Kaiserslautern brought charges against the accused Andreas S.

The 39-year-old is accused of two completed murders, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.

S. is said to have surprisingly fired the first shot from a short distance from a shotgun on the head of the 24-year-old officer.

According to the indictment, she was seriously injured.

However, the defendant assumed her death.

The second shot was fired from the same gun at a greater distance at her 29-year-old colleague, who was hit in the buttocks.

The officer shot back with his service pistol in defense and made an emergency call with the words "They are shooting", whereupon S. shot the policeman three times with a hunting rifle, injuring him severely each time.

The last shot hit the policeman in the head and was fatal.

S. then searched the officer lying on the floor for notes that he considered to be compromising.

He discovered that she was still alive and shot her in the head with the shotgun.

Furthermore, the accused has to answer for resistance and attack on law enforcement officers as well as joint poaching.

According to the public prosecutor's office, the latter was the reason for the murders.

At the time of the crime, the sale of the loot was essentially the defendant's livelihood.

S. is said to have killed the police officers out of greed so that the poaching could continue.

According to the investigation, he had neither a hunting license nor a gun permit.

Murder trial for deadly shots at police officers: Second suspect released from custody

Freisen: Two weeks after the two police officers were shot dead in the West Palatinate, the 29-year-old police commissioner who died was buried on Tuesday in his hometown of Freisen in Saarland (archive image, February 15, 2022).

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Originally, the now 33-year-old Florian V. was suspected of murder.

However, the suspicion was not substantiated, which is why he was released from custody.

The indictment accuses him, like the accused Andreas S., of joint commercial poaching on the night of the crime.

He will therefore also have to answer in court in the scheduled trial.

On the day of the crime, both men initially fled and were only arrested after hours of searching.

According to a preliminary psychiatric report, both are considered guilty.

The past of the 39-year-old suspect became the focus of the investigation early on.

He was noticed by the authorities, among other things, because of the suspicion of hunting poaching.

His 33-year-old accomplice is said to be known to the police for fraud.

In the process, 14 appointments are scheduled until September 9th by the beginning of September.

, the relatives of the two victims do

not want to appear at the start of the process.

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After Kusel's double murder, a 55-year-old called for more police officers to be killed on the Internet.

The man now has to answer to the district court of Idar-Oberstein.

The trial begins on August 5, as the court in Rhineland-Palatinate announced at the end of May.

After the police murder in the Palatinate, the man is said to have called for the killing of other police officers on Facebook.

That is why the Koblenz public prosecutor's office had accused him of publicly inciting criminal offenses in early May

.