Alex W. was shot dead in a gas station in Idar-Oberstein because he is said to have pointed out to a man that masks were compulsory. This is known about the “petrol station murder”.
On September 18, 2021, a young gas station employee was shot dead at work in Idar-Oberstein. The act triggered nationwide dismay, as the reason for the act is said to have been a discussion about the mask requirement specified in the Corona rules. This is what we know about the crime, the perpetrator, the victim and the process:
According to the public prosecutor’s office, this is course of events famous
At 7:48 p.m. on September 18, 2021, the accused wanted to buy beer in the Aral gas station on Hauptstrasse in Idar-Oberstein. He is said not to have worn a mouth and nose cover in the sales room, although this was required due to the Corona rules. At the checkout, the 20-year-old gas station employee Alex W. is said to have pointed out the mask requirement to the then 49-year-old. After a short discussion, the employee is said to have refused to sell the beer to the accused, after which the accused is said to have left the gas station.
The man is said to have been so angry about the situation at home that he came to the conclusion that he could not let it go. Because the defendant is said to have felt burdened by the corona restrictions for a long time, he wanted to set an example, according to senior public prosecutor Kai Fuhrmann. He is said to have seen the gas station employee as jointly responsible for the overall situation because he wanted to enforce the Corona regulations.
The trial against a 50-year-old from Idar-Oberstein begins today at the Bad Kreuznach district court. He is said to have shot a gas station employee in September 2021.
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According to the public prosecutor’s office, the accused wanted to send a signal and drove back to the Aral gas station with a loaded revolver. At 9:19 p.m., the accused is said to have entered the sales room again and gone to the checkout with a six-pack of beer. When it was his turn, he is said to have pulled down the mask he was still wearing to provoke a reaction from the 20-year-old gas station employee.
The gas station employee is said to have asked the accused to pull up the mask. The accused is said to have pulled the revolver out of his trouser pocket, pointed it at the 20-year-old gas station employee and shot him in the face from a short distance with the intent to kill. The 20-year-old is said to have fallen to the ground as a result of the headshot and died immediately on the spot.
Trial: Here’s what we know about the suspect perpetrator
The accused is 50-year-old Mario N. The software developer has no criminal record and is currently being held in custody in Rohrbach JVA (Alzey-Worms district). The man is said to have felt burdened by the corona restrictions for a long time. According to prosecutors, he possessed illegally two firearms.
According to joint research by the news magazine “The mirror” and the think tank CeMAS, which specializes in conspiracy myths, the alleged shooter had already expressed nebulous fantasies of violence on a Twitter profile two years ago.
This is for murder weapon famous
The accused is said to have owned two weapons in his house in Idar-Oberstein between 2014 and the day of the crime in September 2021. According to the public prosecutor’s office, he did not have the necessary weapons license for this. The weapons are a Smith & Wesson revolver (model 686, caliber 357 Magnum) and a Ceska 1945 pistol (Caliber 6.35 mm Browning).
According to prosecutors, the murder weapon was a revolver. It was loaded with several cartridges, the accused is said to have fired a shot. The weapons could have come from the estate of his late father.
In the case of the Idar-Oberstein homicide, there are indications that the alleged perpetrator Mario N. could have received the murder weapon from his father a few years ago. This was the result of SWR research.
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What we about that victim Alex W know
The victim was 20-year-old Alex W. The student had worked in a gas station in Idar-Oberstein.
At a moving funeral service, around 400 people in Idar-Oberstein said goodbye to Alex W. at the beginning of October. There his mother said: “Alex was a fun-loving, helpful, intelligent, charming, charismatic as well as chaotic and crazy, but above all a loving and funny young man.” She asked that he be remembered as such and “not as the boy who was shot at the gas station.”
That’s how it works process to the alleged gas station murder in Idar-Oberstein
The process of the so-called gas station murder begins on March 21, 2022 at 9 a.m. at the Bad-Kreuznach district court – i.e. 184 days after the fact. The public prosecutor accuses the 50-year-old man of murder because “the killing was insidious and for base motives”. In addition, there are offenses under the law on weapons, since the man is said to have possessed and carried weapons without permission. There are initially 15 days of negotiations until May 13th.