In the trial of a pensioner who shot a 16-year-old in Lower Saxony, no one can find an answer to the question: Why did he kill the teenager of all people? The defendant also sees others as guilty.
He would swear on the Bible, “a hundred times on the Bible,” that he had not planned his crime, says Giuseppe del B., 82. On the last day of the trial before the verdict was announced, the pensioner was brought back to room 272 of the Osnabrück regional court. As the defendant, he has the last word in a trial in which the question was asked again and again over the course of three months: Why?