The trial about the rape and death of a girl in a children’s home in Wunsiedel is about the defendant. A former friend reports on their youth together – the man doesn’t come off well.
They haven’t seen each other for what feels like an eternity, so the witness first looks at the defendant for a few seconds as he sits down in front of the judge’s desk in the jury room of the Hof Regional Court. The two spent parts of their youth together. “I would say that we were friends,” says the 26-year-old in the pink T-shirt.