Shots at police officers: magistrate assumes joint murder

Watch the video: Attorney Orthen explains the murder allegation in the case of the police officers who were shot

(NOTE: THIS CONTRIBUTION IS WITHOUT SPEAKER TEXT.) Chief Public Prosecutor Stefan Orthen on Tuesday in Kaiserslautern: “The investigating judge assumes that the two suspects were traveling in a vehicle, in a van, in the Kusel district to poach there. One has later found this vehicle during the arrest and even then there was still a large number of wild animals killed in the loading area of ​​this box van.And the arrest warrant also assumes that the two suspects, the two accused, then got into this traffic check. The two police officers were uniformed and also identified themselves as police officers, at least that’s what we’re assuming, and there’s this first radio message, which says that these wild animals were found on the bed or in the trunk of this van and now wants to go over to an identity check. And the next radio message has already been mentioned Then, shortly afterwards, there was a call for help and a message that they, meaning the police officers, would shoot at us. At the moment we are assuming, after the forensic medicine has carried out initial investigations and various searches have also found weapons that could be the instruments of the crime, that one of the two weapons is a shotgun and the other weapon is a hunting rifle.” // “It the reason for detention is the risk of absconding against the two accused. The investigating judge assumes that the act constitutes “collective murder”, that the killing of the two police officers served to cover up the preceding poaching and that the murder characteristic of the intention to cover up is therefore fulfilled. “