Start of the process at the Memmingen district court: Why did Hanna W. (16) have to die?
Created: 08/30/2022, 18:30
By: Klaus D. Treude
On November 14, 2021, 16-year-old Hanna W. was brutally murdered in Memmingerberg near Memmingen Airport.
The two alleged perpetrators are now before the Memmingen district court before the court.
© Klaus D. Treude
Memmingen – On August 29, 2022, the trial against the unemployed bricklayer Denis G. (26) and the student Angelina A. (16) began before the 5th Juvenile Criminal Court of the Memmingen Regional Court.
The two Germans are accused of killing 16-year-old Hannah W. south of Memmingen Airport on November 14 last year.
They planned the act together.
At the time, the case had also caused a national stir, and the interest in the audience and the media on the first day of the trial, which was led by the presiding judge Thomas Hörmann, was correspondingly high.
Since the accused is a juvenile, the proceedings take place before the Juvenile Criminal Court, but are public.
The public prosecutor assumes that the two defendants initially drugged their victim near Memmingen Airport on a pretext.
The gelatin capsules administered to the unsuspecting victim are vitamin pills.
In fact, these contained the party drug MDMA (ecstasy).
The defendant is said to have hit the victim on the head with a vodka glass bottle, after which the girl fell to the ground.
The accused then stabbed the victim several times with a butterfly knife in the back and rear side torso, which resulted in the girl's death within minutes.
(The Memminger KURIER reported).
Defendants follow the reading of the indictment with expressionless expressions
The accused, who have been held in pre-trial detention in various prisons since their arrest, watched the reading of the indictment with expressionless faces.
They had provided information on the matter during the investigation, but did not comment at the beginning of the trial before the jury.
They are accused of collective, treacherous murder.
If convicted of murder, the accused faces life imprisonment, while the maximum sentence for the accused under the applicable juvenile criminal law is ten years imprisonment.
Despite extensive investigations, much remains unclear
Even after the extensive police investigation, much is still unclear.
So also the question of why Hannah W. had to die.
The process is currently scheduled to last 31 days until December 8, 2022.
93 witnesses - including the accused's father, who was sitting next to his daughter at the beginning of the trial - and eight experts are invited.
Next hearing date: taking of evidence on September 15, 2022
The hearing of evidence is scheduled to begin on the next day of the hearing, September 15.
The verdict could come in early December.
The Memminger KURIER had already reported about it several times:
16-year-old girl found dead in Memmingerberg
Flowers and candles at the crime scene in Memmingerberg
Memmingerberg: suspicion of insidious murder
Memmingen public prosecutor files murder charges
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