155 Kaprun criminal case

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155 Kriminalfall Kaprun is a non-fiction book by the Austrian journalist Hannes Uhl and the German journalist Hubertus Godeysen . The title, published in 2014, deals with the background and investigations into the legal processing of the fire disaster on the Kaprun 2 glacier railway .

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Front cover of the book

10 years after the globally criticized verdict in the Salzburg Kaprun trial, the Viennese edition a Verlag published a 192-page book 155 Kriminalfall Kaprun in 2014 with new backgrounds to the disaster, the investigations and the legal processing. The then public prosecutor Eva Danninger-Soriat, who had been involved from the day of the disaster, supported the two authors Hubertus Godeysen and Hannes Uhl in their research. The trigger for this was, among other things, an emotional encounter with the father of a victim. In the prologue, Eva Danninger-Soriat tells how he accused her of being in league with the accused and helping them to be acquitted.

In the book, for example, it is reported how the first chief appraiser Anton Muhr, appointed by Danninger-Soriat, was dismissed from the process for alleged reasons. He came to the conclusion that it was not the fan heater itself that was to blame for the fire, but rather its dismantling and the improper modification and subsequent reinstallation. In his opinion, the hydraulic measuring lines, which now lay on the fan heater and lost oil at the connecting pieces, were one of the reasons for the fire to start. Anton Muhr, who, among other things , had been appointed as an expert for the fire in the Tauern tunnel in 1999 , suffered a severe depression in court due to the discriminatory treatment of colleagues and others involved. The former prosecutor reports how he should have been bullied . Furthermore, it is described how the court called on other experts after Anton Muhr's dismissal, who are said to have steered the causes of the fire in favor of the glacier cable cars and tried to refute Anton Muhr's results.

There are contradicting reports about experts and employees of the Gletscherbahnen, who all saw oil in the device when they viewed the remaining fan heater from the second set, but denied this in court. After the trial was over, however, it was confirmed again after investigators from the Heilbronn public prosecutor questioned her about it. These statements are documented in an investigation report from the Heilbronn public prosecutor.

In the book, the former public prosecutor is also irritated by a celebration held in the Salzburger Wirtshaus Die Weisse immediately after the verdict , which is said to have been attended by the then judge Manfred Seiss and several experts who argued in favor of the glacier lifts. This celebration was actually publicly known earlier and criticized in various media.

There is also information about the former Central Forensic Office (KTZ), later the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the Ministry of the Interior in Vienna, whose team was responsible for securing evidence in Kaprun. According to information from the then public prosecutor Danninger-Soriat, this is said to have boycotted the cooperation with the expert Anton Muhr and even deliberately withheld evidence when he requested it. The BKA was and is also subordinate to the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior and is therefore not an independent authority. The question of political influence is raised in the book.

The descriptions in the book also contain explicit representations of the work of the fire brigades and the armed forces , of witnesses as well as of the rescue of the victims and the work of the forensic investigation. Sometimes this work was very stressful, so a forensic technician had to be withdrawn because she could not withstand the emotional strain.

The book has been mentioned in various Austrian and German media because it takes a critical look at the official descriptions.

The book has also been available as an audio book since 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubertus Godeysen, Hannes Uhl: 155: Kriminalfall Kaprun . Ed. a, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99001-076-1 ( dnb.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
  2. ^ Salzburgwiki: Eva Danninger-Soriat
  3. ↑ Hubertus Godeysen
  4. ↑ Hannes Uhl
  5. ↑ https://sbgv1.orf.at/stories/436582
  6. ^ Salzburgwiki: Manfred Seiss
  7. ↑ Kaprun catastrophe mutated into a judicial scandal. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
  8. ^ Christian Fürst: Kaprun tragedy: How Austrians passed the blame on to Germans . In: THE WORLD . June 24, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed March 29, 2020]).
  9. ^ Salzburg24: "155 - Kriminalfall Kaprun": Book should bring truth to light. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  10. ↑ heute.at: "155 - Kriminalfall Kaprun" - Who was really to blame? - Salzburg. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ michaela. Rubbing wine: Kaprun: A trauma without end. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Kaprun accident: Documentation reveals judicial scandal. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  13. ↑ FOCUS Online: Victims relatives want more money. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Ten years of the Kaprun judgment: Mourning remains. February 19, 2014, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  15. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Ten years after the Kaprun judgment: Documentation of a judicial scandal. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Stefan Müller: Brand von Kaprun: From right and wrong . In: The time . April 30, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).