Police murder on the Gaisburg Bridge

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On August 8, 1989, two police officers from Frederic Otomo alias Albert Ament were murdered on the Gaisburger Bridge in Stuttgart-Gaisburg .

Prehistory of the act

During a control on a tram on line 9, Frederic Otomo was checked and could not show a valid ticket . Otomo slapped one of the two controllers in the face; he lost several teeth. He escaped from the tram at the Landhausstrasse stop . He was searched for after the assault. At 6:50 am, about half an hour after the incident in the tram, the search in the area of ​​the wholesale market was canceled. Other sources give a one-hour manhunt.

Murder on the Gaisburg Bridge

Shortly after 9 a.m. Otomo was discovered by a patrol at the traffic surveillance on the Gaisburger bridge. The officers Harald Poppe and Peter Quast received support from another patrol car and spoke to the man, but received no answer from him. Nor did he allow himself to be led away. Otomo was then to be taken to a police VW bus. While an officer was on the radio, Otomo was supposed to be arrested by five officers. They stood in a semicircle around him. Otomo fled, but was caught up after a few meters. The next moment, it seemed as if Otomo were pushing at the police with his rolled-up newspaper. The newspaper contained a bayonet that he always carried with him. Three officers were injured within 15 seconds. Police chief Harald Poppe was stabbed in the lung, but was able to shoot the perpetrator again. The injured perpetrator stabbed police chief Peter Quast in the heart. Jürgen Hähnlein, who was also seriously injured, fired three times at the fugitive and hit him fatally.

The 28-year-old Quast died at the scene, Poppe, 27, an hour later in the hospital. Jürgen Hähnlein and Joachim L. were seriously injured, another policeman was slightly injured.

Frederic Otomo

Frédéric Beyida-Otomo was born in Cameroon on September 6, 1941. In 1981 he entered Germany from Liberia as a stowaway and pretended to be Albert Ament. He also admitted to being Liberians and applied for asylum. His asylum application was rejected, but he was given a tolerance.

Consequences of the act

After the offense, there were calls for the deportation practice to be tightened, as Otomo had been a tolerated foreigner in Germany for several years.

In 1999 the act was portrayed in the film Otomo . Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '23.1 "  N , 9 ° 13' 21.6"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 15 seconds put a city in shock, Eßlinger Zeitung, August 8, 2009 [1]
  2. ↑ From the Sippy Cup, Der Spiegel. Vol. 1989, No. 33, August 14, 1989, pp. 66-70.
  3. ↑ a b Otomo (Frieder Schlaich, D 2000, 82 min). In: filmgalerie451.de. Retrieved December 17, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Murderer out of nowhere, Die Zeit