In the continuation of the trial against four 35, 40, 43 and 50-year-old men who are currently having to answer for a large number of burglaries and attempted burglaries, including in the districts of Freising and Dachau, before the first criminal chamber of the Landshut Regional Court, a expert presented his report on the evaluation of surveillance videos on Tuesday. Accordingly, one can assume that the two main accused are very or most likely identical to two men who can be seen on the videos.
The accused, who are accused of serious gang theft, are said to have stolen large sums of money and caused great damage. Loot and damage amount to several 100,000 euros each. The alleged crimes occurred between October 2, 2019 and July 23, 2021. The perpetrators broke into banks and commercial buildings, breaking into ATMs or safes. Among other things, with spreaders that they had previously captured in burglaries in fire stations. The crime scenes included a brewery in Freising, a commercial enterprise and a cinema in Neufahrn, banks in Langenbach and Rudelzhausen and two car dealerships in Dachau. The alleged head of the gang, a 43-year-old man from Freising, and a 50-year-old from Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, who is said to have been involved in ten of the 17 alleged acts, have already made confessions. A 40-year-old from Hückelhoven in North Rhine-Westphalia has also confessed, who, according to the indictment, was only involved in one crime – the one in the Neufahrner cinema, after which he was finally arrested
The fourth in the group, a 35-year-old from Pfaffenhofen, had declared on the first day of the hearing that he had not been involved in any crime. According to the indictment, he is one of the accused in only one case anyway. When the presiding judge Markus Kring asked him on Tuesday during the continuation of the trial whether he might now want to make a statement, the Pfaffenhofener stuck to it – no statement. He had previously only caused a stir in another way: he made the assembled process participants wait half an hour because, as he said over the phone, he had worked late the day before and therefore overslept.
When things could get going, the expert, an anthropologist with a doctorate, presented his opinion on the images he had evaluated from five surveillance videos. Two perpetrators were visible on four, and three on one. He called two perpetrators the “owl” and the “ninja” because of the similarity to their recurring masking. According to a scientific evaluation, the two perpetrators are most likely identical in all five cases. And apart from the confession, there is also a lot to suggest that the perpetrators in the pictures are the 43-year-old and the 50-year-old accused. The identity is very probable to highly probable. The expert was able to almost rule out that an unmasked third party, who can be seen in a poor-quality picture, is the 35-year-old accused.