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Trial of hate speech against police officers killed in Kusel
The accused is in the dock: the public prosecutor’s office accuses him of disparaging the two police officers killed in Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate. Photo: Britta Schultejans/dpa
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A man has to answer in court for verbal abuse. He justifies this not least with his alcohol consumption.
The Munich district court has tried a man who described the police officers killed in Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, as “bastards” – and wished their Munich colleagues the same fate.
The 35-year-old apologized on Thursday and blamed the verbal gaffe on his problematic alcohol consumption. According to his defense attorney, he had a blood alcohol level of 2.5 at the time of the crime at the beginning of February this year.
According to his own statements, he had started getting drunk after an argument with his sister. Police officers drove to his apartment after he had rioted there. According to the indictment, he insulted the officers and said they should be shot just like the “bastards” the week before. The man fully admitted the charges in court.
At the same time, the 35-year-old emphasized that he had nothing against the police. His cousin is a police officer and he is not a racist either. He blamed his childhood in Thuringia for making explicitly racist statements, as he is accused of doing in the indictment. There he “grew up with such CDs and such things”. But he had “long since turned away” from the ideology.
At the end of January, a 24-year-old police officer and a 29-year-old police commissioner were shot and killed during a nightly vehicle check. The trial against a 39-year-old who, according to the investigators, is said to have shot the two officers to cover up poaching is currently underway at the Kaiserslautern district court.