Alfred Lecki

Alfred Lecki (born October 1, 1938 in Berlin ; † September 17, 2000 there ) was a German criminal . He became known as the escape king in the 1970s and 80s.

Life

Lecki's life changed when his driver's license was revoked for life. The coachbuilder trained in his father's company drove under the influence of alcohol even without a driver's license and caused several accidents.

He broke out in prison for the first time in August 1968. A year after his escape, he shot and killed a police officer in Bottrop during a police patrol , seriously injured another and was finally arrested again shortly afterwards.

On December 25, 1969, Lecki committed the next outbreak: with the help of another prisoner, Helmut Derks, who had been sentenced to seven years in prison for robbery, he managed to escape from pre-trial detention in the prison in Essen using a self-made duplicate key . The case caused a lot of sensation at the time and was part of the crime show Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved . The two attacked banks together and stole a total of five million marks. In the course of the police investigation, a double Leckis was shot and other innocent men were taken into police custody. For the first time, the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, commissioned the Federal Criminal Police Office to search for the fugitive criminal.

In July 1970, Lecki and his companion were caught in Spain with the help of private investigator Werner Mauss . Again Lecki was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years for robbery. He started this sentence in the Rheinbach prison near Bonn . After 13 years in prison, he fled again on October 4, 1983 on an excursion with a social worker, but was recognized by a former inmate in Cologne about a year later, on December 11, 1984, and arrested again. The next outbreak occurred on September 21, 1986. He fled, aided by insufficient security measures, while he was being treated at the University Clinic in Bonn. On December 20, 1986 he was caught on Sylt , where he and his sister had rented a holiday home for Christmas.

As a result of the case, the resignation of the Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rolf Krumsiek, was called for, heads of prisons were transferred to punishments and disciplinary proceedings were carried out against prison officers. In particular, the open prison system and the role of voluntary carers (civilians who visit prisoners in their free time and look after them) came into the discussion, because allegedly this way prisoners could pursue their criminal business even while in prison. Some volunteer workers were charged with allegedly helping Lecki during his escape, but they were acquitted. In the population, Lecki is said to have met with some sympathy because he amused both with his sometimes comical appearances in court and with the tricky outbursts and the recurring reason for the outbursts that he was not used to detention.

Lecki died in freedom of heart failure in a Berlin park on September 17, 2000 after he was released early.

Web links

• Criminal cases Alfred Lecki Hunt for the Escape King , Das Erste , WDR 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The big criminal cases: Hunt for the escape king ARD
2. ↑ Open the door . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1987 ( online ).
3. ↑ See Wolfgang Berke / Jan Zweyer: Really criminal. The spectacular falls from the Ruhr area . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0705-8 , p. 49.