Alois Mannichl

Alois Mannichl (born April 15, 1956 ) is a German police officer. The chief police director is the head of the Bavarian border police . As Police Director at the Bavarian Police , from 2004 to May 31, 2009, he was in charge of the Passau Police Department, which has since been dissolved .

Mannichl became known nationwide when he was attacked with a knife on December 13, 2008. The police suspected right-wing extremist motives based on the victim's statements. The criminal case has not yet been resolved; the proceedings were initially discontinued in May 2011. As a result of the attack, the discussion about a renewed NPD ban proceedings arose. This was finally applied for in 2013, see NPD Prohibition Procedure (2013–2017) .

Life and career

Mannichl began his professional career as a police chief in the middle service of the Bavarian border police and was deployed at the German-Austrian border crossing in Achleiten near Passau. In the 1980s he switched to the senior service and took over the management of the border police on Lindau-Autobahn, before becoming head of the organized crime department at the Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate police headquarters in Regensburg in 1997 . He later became deputy head of the Passau police department and was appointed head of it in September 2004. In 2009 plans were announced that Mannichl would become head of the Lower Bavaria criminal police. Since June 1, 2009, he has been in charge of the fight against crime in the Lower Bavaria police headquarters created by the police reform . On July 1, 2018, he became Chief Police Director of the newly founded Bavarian Border Police.

In early 2008 Mannichl was on the list a nonpartisan voter community in the council of Fürstenzell selected. He is married and has two grown children.

Knife attack

On December 13, 2008, Mannichl was stabbed and injured in front of his house in Fürstenzell. According to his statements, the perpetrator stabbed him with a knife from Mannichl's own household that had been forgotten in front of his house.

Assumption of a right-wing extremist background

According to Mannichl's statement, the perpetrator shouted "Greetings from the national resistance, you left bull pig, you never trample on the graves of our comrades" before stabbing him. An incident on Memorial Day at the Innstadtfriedhof in Passau is suspected as the background . At an event to commemorate the war dead, Mannichl allegedly touched a grave slab with his foot. The following day the NPD district association published a verbal attack on the police director on its website. There it said: "Annoyed, Mannichl stood on a grave slab of fallen soldiers and trampled on a commemorative arrangement with his shoes." On the same day, on November 17th, Mannichl requested the local court to remove the text passage by means of an injunction and was right whereupon the NPD deleted the sentence. On April 8, 2009, a leading NPD functionary from Bavaria was sentenced to a fine for defamation on the basis of this Internet post. Mannichl himself sees this publication on the Internet as a trigger for the act. Even before that, Mannichl had become a hatred figure in the right-wing extremist scene in and around Passau because of his tough course against right-wing extremists . In early 2007, Mannichl personally prevented right-wing extremist Friedhelm Busse from appearing in a Passau café. In addition, the Passau police had taken under his leadership against marches by right-wing extremists, a camp of the extreme right-wing group "broke Blood Brothers Lower Bavaria " and had commissioned the prosecution Passau a Reichskriegsflagge with swastika from the grave of Friedhelm Busse ensure let the NPD of Activist Thomas Wulff laid down on the coffin during the funeral in the cemetery in the Passau district of Patriching .

Investigations

Initially, a 50-person special commission took over the investigation. At the turn of the year 2008/2009, the “ Fürstenzell ” special commission was dissolved and the number of statements made by the investigators and the victim was drastically reduced. The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) took over the case and increased the reward for information that led to the investigation of the crime on January 23, 2009 to 20,000 euros. In March 2009 the special commission was reduced from 50 to 30 officials and the commission was moved to Munich. Officials were eliminated from whose areas the traces had been processed.

The search for two suspects whose eye-catching tattoos had caught a witness was unsuccessful. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution was also unable to obtain any information about the perpetrator, which is why the investigation also considered other possible groups of perpetrators. The public prosecutor mentioned "strange" circumstances, but had no evidence of a relationship act. The alibis of the family members and acquaintances of Mannichl could be confirmed by the creation of movement profiles based on mobile phone tracking data. At the beginning of January 2009 the media reported on inconsistencies in Mannichl's statements and the statements of a neighbor. Furthermore, internal information repeatedly reached the media through leaks, which gave impetus to a wide variety of assumptions and speculations. The Chief Public Prosecutor in Passau, Helmut Walch, ruled out a family background in February 2009, as there was “not the slightest clue”. Despite investigations by 30 officers at the time, there were no concrete results by mid-June 2009.

In November 2009, errors in the investigation were admitted. Among other things, the traces at the crime scene were not secured early and DNA traces were not searched under the victim's fingernails , although this would have been a standard procedure. There was no timely cooperation with the police in Austria , only fifteen minutes away by car . Faulty press releases were also issued, such as the fact that the murder weapon was a gingerbread knife.

In December 2009, Walch emphasized that Mannichl "... did not behave without contradiction during his interrogations ..." and that this act "... was hardly a targeted attack from the right-wing extremist scene ..." .

At the end of May 2011, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office announced that the investigation file would be temporarily closed without clarification of the case.

After the attacks by the right-wing terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) became known in November 2011, the Bavarian LKA examined a possible involvement of the NSU. After comparing several DNA samples, there was no evidence that the NSU was involved.

In 2013 it was reported that there were indications that would lead to a right-wing radical group, assigned to the rocker milieu , with the name " Object 21 ". This Upper Austrian group was blown in mid-January 2013 and probably has no contact with the NSU. The public prosecutor's office in Passau denied a concrete lead in this direction.

Political reactions to the act

After the crime, measures against militant right-wing extremism and against the NPD were increasingly discussed.

In a debate in the state parliament on December 16, 2008, Bavaria's Interior Minister Herrmann demanded that state party funding for the NPD be reviewed. In the debate, however, he was skeptical of a renewed prohibition procedure, as the informers in the party could not be withdrawn and the 2001 NPD ban procedure had failed due to the existence of the informants. A corresponding advance by the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria did not find a majority after a consultation with Chancellor Merkel and the Prime Minister. A "prohibition pressure" should be maintained.

On December 16, 2008, the Bavarian State Parliament decided to have a prevention concept drawn up against right-wing radicalism. The Bavarian state government has also changed the guidelines for the support of state officials in civil law suits. In libel financial support of officials should be possible in the future.

For the beginning of January 2009, a private person close to the NPD registered a demonstration in Passau under the motto “Against police arbitrariness and media incitement” in the Mannichl case. The party and related organizations called for participation on websites. The demonstration was initially forbidden by the city of Passau, but then allowed under certain conditions by the Regensburg Administrative Court and finally the Bavarian Administrative Court. Between 200 and 300 right-wing extremists demonstrated on January 3, 2009. At least 1,000 counter-demonstrators gathered against this demonstration and around 1,000 police officers were on duty.

Shortly after the attack with a knife against Mannichl, the view was taken on a website of the NPD that Mannichl had abused his office to persecute the so-called " national opposition ". Mannichl filed a criminal complaint for defamation against Udo Voigt and his spokesman. The Passau public prosecutor's office thereupon issued penal orders against Voigt and his spokesman on November 23, 2009 . In the criminal proceedings , the Passau District Court suggested that the penalty orders be withdrawn. In response to a complaint from the public prosecutor's office, the Passau Regional Court decided in 2010 that it was not a matter of asserting facts, but of expressing a personal opinion. The freedom of speech therefore precludes such criminality.

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Individual evidence

1. ^ The Mannichl case is temporarily suspended , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 21, 2011.
2. ^ The Mannichl case , Die Zeit, January 15, 2009.
3. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : Passau's police chief learned in Lindau ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Portrait: Mannichl is regarded as an enemy of the neo-Nazis , Kölnische Rundschau of December 14, 2008.
5. ↑ Mannichl is to become head of detective work , sueddeutsche.de from May 20, 2009.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Investigators are far from giving up in the Mannichl case , Augsburger Allgemeine from June 1, 2009.
7. ↑ Marcel Kehrer, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Passau: Mannichl becomes head of Söders new border police | BR.de . June 27, 2018 ( archive.org [accessed July 2, 2018]).
8. ^ Investigations in the ice hockey scene in the Mannichl case , Die Welt from January 2, 2009.
9. ↑ ^{a b c} EXTREMISTS - Brazen double game
10. ^ ^{A b} Assassination attempt on Alois Mannichl , Passauer Neue Presse of April 9, 2009.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Zeit Online: NPD functionary convicted of insulting Mannichl ( memento of April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Police release suspects , taz.de of December 16, 2008.
13. ^ NPD functionary convicted of insulting Mannichl , DiePresse.com of April 10, 2009.
14. ^ Attack on Passau Police Chief Mannichl , Spiegel Online from December 15, 2009.
15. ↑ Stealth Nazis , Focus No. 52/2008.
16. ↑ See NPD incites neo-Nazis against them , Spiegel Online from August 5, 2008, and Justice has the swastika flag removed from a fresh grave , Spiegel Online from July 30, 2008.
17. ↑ Investigation team in the Mannichl case is downsized , Welt Online from March 12, 2009.
18. ↑ dpa of January 23, 2009, including in the Saarbrücker Zeitung
19. ↑ Zeit Online: Verfassungsschutz: No evidence of a right-wing attack on Mannichl ( memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
20. ^ Mannichl rejects speculation about the attack , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 10, 2009.
21. ↑ Mannichl: Still no trace of the assassins  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , ORF from February 4, 2009.
22. ^ An engraving and the consequences , Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 8, 2009.
23. ↑ The inconsistencies in the Alois Mannichl case , Welt Online from January 9, 2009.
24. ↑ Investigators rule out family background for the crime , Spiegel Online from February 11, 2009.
25. ^ Further mishaps in the Mannichl case , Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 25, 2009.
26. ↑ Left by colleagues , Zeit Online, November 30, 2009.
27. ^ Helmut Walch , Stern Online
28. ^ Helmut Walch , Stern Online
29. ↑ Mannichl case is temporarily closed , sueddeutsche.de of May 21, 2011.
30. ↑ attack on PASSAUER SHERIFF - LKA checks connection between the right terrorist cell and the case Mannichl. In: www.augsburger-allgemeine.de. November 14, 2011, accessed November 15, 2011 . 
31. ↑ Mannichl case - DNA traces do not match the Zwickau terror cell. In: Spiegel Online. November 18, 2011, accessed November 22, 2011 . 
32. ↑ Kurt-Martin Mayer, Attack on Passau Police Chief: New trace in the Mannichl case leads to the rocker milieu , Focus Online from March 10, 2013.
33. ↑ No trace to Austria in the Mannichl case , orf.at of March 12, 2013
34. ↑ Patrick Saint-Paul, Les violences des neonazis inquiètent Berlin , Le Figaro from December 16, 2008. (French)
35. ↑ Bavaria wants to cap donations to NPD , FAZ.net from December 16, 2008.
36. ↑ Investigators pursue traces in Munich's neo-Nazi scene , Spiegel Online from December 18, 2008.
37. ^ Passauer Neue Presse of December 17, 2008: Minister wants to better protect police officers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 1, 2014 ; accessed on June 24, 2020 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
38. ↑ LKA attracts investigations , Die Zeit of December 30, 2008.
39. ↑ Courts lift ban on NPD demonstrations in Passau , Mittelbayerische.de from January 2, 2009.
40. ^ ^{A b} Peaceful protest against neo-Nazi marches , Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 3, 2009.
41. ↑ ^{a b} N24: Protest against neo-Nazi marches ( Memento from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
42. ^ Nicholas Kulish, Ancient City's Nazi Past Seeps Out After Stabbing , New York Times, February 11, 2009.
43. ^ Passauer Neue Presse of April 7, 2010: Mannichl is defeated by NPD boss . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 1, 2014 ; accessed on June 24, 2020 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. }