Police murder in Augsburg 2011

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Aerial view of the Siebentischwald, looking south-southwest. The Lech, the Kuhsee and Augsburg-Haunstetten-Siebenbrunn are clearly visible

The 2011 police murder in Augsburg took place around 2:50 a.m. on October 28, 2011, west of the Kuhsee in the Siebentischwald, southeast of downtown Augsburg . A pair of brothers were convicted for the act.

Sequence of events

The strips crew consisting of police chief master Mathias Vieth (41) and a colleague ( police top champion , 30), wanted to 3 am (the crew of a parked on a forest car park motorcycle 500 Honda CB ) a routine check undergo. Thereupon the driver and his pillion fled on the motorcycle and the chase took place over the pedestrian bridge of the Hochablasse . After crossing the high drain, the motorcycle fell through damp leaves on the forest floor after entering the neighboring Siebentischwald . After the officers got out and asked the suspects to lie down, one of the men or both began to shoot the officers, the perpetrators exchanged fire using a rapid-fire rifle and pistols from the police at a distance of about 10 meters . Vieth suffered several hits and died on the scene of serious head injuries, from which his bulletproof vest could not protect him. The officer took cover behind the passenger door and fired four shots from her service weapon without knowing whether she had hit anyone in the process; a bullet fired by the perpetrators ricocheted off the reserve magazine of her service pistol on her belt, and she was slightly injured by a cartridge that exploded in the magazine . The men fled on foot in the direction of Siebentischwald or Lech .

Investigations and searches

Public search via posting and internet (advertised amount out of date)

An immediate manhunt was unsuccessful. On the same day, the 40-person Soko "Spickel" was set up at the Presidium level (head: Chief Detective Director Klaus Bayerl). On October 29, 2011 , the fugitive's weapon, a large- caliber pistol, was found. On November 9, 2011, the beaming ZDF in the program file number XY ... unsolved a Public search from. From December 2011 a reward of 100,000.00 euros was offered for information that would have led to the investigation of the crime. The police received around 700 reports from the population. By December 30, 2011, more than 850 tracks had been evaluated.

Two arrests related to the murder were made in late December 2011 . DNA traces found at the crime scene could be assigned to one of the suspects . Rudolf (Rudi) Rebarczyk (56) shot the Augsburg police officer Bernd-Dieter Kraus (30) back in 1975 and was released from prison after 19 years. Raimund Mayr (58) is his brother. In autumn 2012, the Augsburg public prosecutor brought charges before the Augsburg regional court .

This was the third police murder in Augsburg since 1945.

process

On February 21, 2013 the trial of the brothers Rudolf Rebarczyk and Raimund Mayr was opened under the strictest security precautions before the Augsburg Regional Court . Both defendants denied the act. It was a circumstantial trial for which almost 50 days of negotiations were planned and 200 witnesses were heard. The widow of the murdered policeman Mathias Vieth and the injured policewoman acted as joint plaintiffs. According to the public prosecutor's office, the main accused was Rebarczyk as "a socially unadapted gun fanatic who acts trigger-happy when he gets into conflict situations". On the first day of the trial, Rebarczyk refused to give any testimony and after the indictment had been read out shouted: "It is idle to react to these Grimms' fairy tales." When the application to be released from the shackles was rejected, Rebarczyk referred to the public prosecutor Hans-Peter Dischinger as a "bastard".

Both the 58-year-old and his brother were exposed to DNA traces and other evidence. An entire arsenal of weapons, partly consisting of war weapons , was seized in the vicinity of the two . Experts from the Federal Criminal Police Office were able to prove that seized Kalashnikov automatic fire rifles were connected to the crime.

The solitary confinement against Raimund Mayr ordered by the Augsburg District Court on July 9, 2012 led to a strict isolation of the prisoner in the Straubing correctional facility and was one of the causes of his serious illness. Mayr was declared "temporarily incapable of negotiating" because of his physical ailments. The forensic psychiatrist ruled out that Raimund Mayr was sitting on the escape vehicle as driver or passenger on the day of the incident.

Brother Rudolf Rebarczyk was also in solitary confinement. Because of the onset of psychological impairment, the decision against him was revoked to prevent him from being incapable of standing.

Condemnation

The Trial Chamber of the District Court Augsburg sentenced Rudolf Rebarczyk on 27 February 2014 at lifelong imprisonment and ordered the subsequent preventive detention on. He was convicted of murder with particular gravity and attempted murder. A lawyer for the co-plaintiffs commented: "He [the defendant] really allowed himself to be executed."

The trial against Raimund Mayr was initially suspended due to inability to stand trial ( Parkinson's disease ). The process was restarted on September 22, 2014. As a result, Mayr was sentenced on March 5, 2015 to life imprisonment with particular severity of guilt, but without preventive detention. An appeal before the Federal Court of Justice in March 2015 was rejected, so that the judgment of the Augsburg Regional Court remained in force.

The surviving police officer, who was severely traumatized in the act, was awarded the right to compensation by the two perpetrators in a separate civil case .

In 2018, the main culprit Rebarczyk hit the headlines again when he thwarted an attempted murder of a woman in the visitor room of the Diez correctional facility .

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Web links

 Wikinews: Category: Augsburg police murder  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Maximum penalty: Rudi R. will probably never be free again. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Police officer shot: "We will get the perpetrators" . In: Augsburger Allgemeine online, October 28, 2011.
  3. ^ Kripo chief Klaus Bayerl did not escape a murderer . In Augsburger Allgemeine , October 30, 2015
  4. ^ Fatal shots at police officers: murder weapon found , T-Online , October 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Augsburg police officer killed after pursuit - Chronology , PP Schwaben Nord online, December 30, 2011.
  6. ↑ Spiegel Online : DNA trace at the crime scene incriminates arrested brothers , accessed on December 31, 2011.
  7. ^ Two brothers with many faces Augsburger Allgemeine online, December 30, 2011.
  8. ^ Augsburg police murder: 58-year-old sentenced to life imprisonment . In: Spiegel Online . February 27, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 1, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Police murder of Augsburg: "Stadium des Unerträbaren" , Spiegel-Online from September 27, 2013, accessed on November 20, 2013.
  10. ↑ Stefan Mayr: Sick through solitary confinement , Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 13, 2013.
  11. ↑ Hans Holzhaider: Augsburger Polizistenmord: Reviewer doubts Raimund M.'s perpetration , Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 19, 2013
  12. ↑ Stefan Mayr: Parkinson prevents judgment , Süddeutsche Zeitung from November 19, 2013.
  13. ↑ www.sueddeutsche.de Life imprisonment for police murderers, February 27, 2014. Accessed February 27, 2014.
  14. ↑ www.stern.de Augsburg police murderer rioted after conviction, February 27, 2014, 9:56 a.m. Accessed November 5, 2017.
  15. ↑ The second round of the Augsburger Allgemeine round on August 5, 2014 at 8:45 a.m. will begin in September . Accessed January 22, 2015.
  16. ↑ Lifelong for second police officer murderer ; in: Augsburger Allgemeine of March 5, 2015
  17. ↑ DPA-RegiolineGeo: Trials: BGH also confirms second murder sentence after the murder of the police in Augsburg. In: Focus Online . February 15, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Holger Sabinsky-Wolf: Verdict: Police murderers have to pay pain and suffering . In: Augsburger Allgemeine. June 6, 2018, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Jörg Heinzle: Augsburg police officer killer stops a woman killer. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 40.9 "  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 54.1"  E