Diren Dede

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Diren Dede (born September 21, 1996 ; died April 27, 2014 in Missoula ) was a Hamburg student of Turkish descent who was shot by the house owner while he was an exchange student while breaking into a private garage in Deer Canyon Court, Missoula, Montana has been.

The 17-year-old Dede, an enthusiastic footballer who played for the football team at Big Sky High School and in his home country for SC Teutonia 1910, made a test of courage with fellow students called “garage hopping”. The mostly unlocked garages are entered and robbed by young people looking for alcoholic beverages (alcohol is only allowed in the USA from the age of 21). The house owner Markus Kaarma, a former firefighter, 29 years old, married, one child, had been affected by two break-ins in the previous three weeks. He was waiting for a chance to get back at the intruders. When sensors reported someone in the garage, Kaarma fired four rounds from a shotgun at Dede. Dede wasn't armed. He was hit in the head area. Kaarma's partner, a paramedic by trade, tried in vain with her hands to stop the bleeding on Dede's neck.

Kaarma had announced such an act to his hairdresser three days beforehand. However, the principle of the “castle doctrine” valid in the USA for the defense of private property does not allow every form of violence. The 30-year-old Kaarma argued with "everyone should be happy that our neighborhood is now safer" and invoked self-defense in the process . The jury found Markus Kaarma guilty of intentional homicide . The sentence announced on December 1, 2014 was 70 years in prison . The earliest possible release is after 20 years in prison. On February 8, 2017, the Montana Supreme Court dismissed Kaarma's appeal.

The incident was documented in 2015 by journalist Tom Schimmeck , who received the Rias Prize in 2016 for his work .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zeit, December 12, 2014
  2. ↑ Independent Record, May 6, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Welt, December 3, 2014
  4. ↑ Welt, May 8, 2014
  5. ^ Spiegel, December 9, 2014
  6. ↑ Stern, December 1, 2014
  7. ^ New York Times, May 7, 2014
  8. ↑ Mopo, December 12, 2014
  9. ^ Zeit, December 18, 2014
  10. ^ FAZ, February 12, 2015
  11. ↑ Huffington Post, February 12, 2015
  12. ↑ ceh., FAZ: appeal in the Diren case rejected. In: FAZ.net . February 9, 2017, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  13. ↑ NDR, July 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Dede, Diren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish student, murder victim
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1996
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2014
Place of death Missoula