STORY: High prison sentences before the Munich II district court on Monday in the trial of the triple murder in Starnberg, which caused a stir in January 2020. The main defendant was sentenced to 13 years of youth imprisonment. The co-defendant got eight years and six months. LAURENT LAFLEUR, HEAD OF THE OLG MUNICH PRESS OFFICE: “The youth chamber stated that the motivation of the two accused was, I quote literally, ‘to lead a cool gangster life’. For this they wanted the weapons that the son of the killed family had hoarded at home had to take.” After around one and a half years of proceedings, the court considered it proven that the now 22-year-old main defendant shot his friend and his parents in January 2020. The man had made a full confession about a year ago. He admitted that he wanted to get through the murders with guns his pal illegally owned and then sell them. According to the public prosecutor’s office, his 21-year-old roommate had planned the murder of their common friend and had driven the main perpetrator to the crime scene. The crime from January 2020 also made headlines because the investigators were initially on the wrong track and assumed that the young man had shot his parents and then himself.