Two days after a right-wing extremist mask refuser was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a gas station employee, the public prosecutor's office has appealed.
A reason for this step is not yet available, said the Bad Kreuznach district court on Thursday.
Bad Kreuznach - The perpetrator, a 50-year-old German, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder on Tuesday.
However, the jury had - contrary to what was demanded by the public prosecutor's office and the joint prosecutor - found no particular severity of guilt.
The question is whether the convict can be released from prison after 15 years of imprisonment with good behavior on probation.
After the verdict, the defense also announced that it would examine the possibility of an appeal.
She had rejected the accusation of murder and instead pleaded manslaughter with significantly reduced criminal responsibility of the 50-year-old, who, according to an expert, had around two per thousand alcohol in his blood at the time of the shot.
A corresponding request for revision had not been received by the court as of Thursday afternoon.
The act on September 18, 2021 at a gas station in Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, had triggered nationwide horror.
The accused had confessed to getting an illegal weapon at home out of anger that the cashier didn’t want to sell him beer without a corona mask and then shooting the 20-year-old when he visited the gas station again.
According to the court, the 50-year-old's radical right-wing attitude and his hostility to the state were the main motives for the crime.
He saw the cashier as a representative for the state and the Corona policy, which he saw as completely wrong.
dpa
