Vigilante justice

Vigilante justice refers to the legally inadmissible retaliation for an injustice suffered that a person concerned practices in his own name.

Demarcation

Actions that are covered by the legal system according to the principles of self-help , self-defense or to avert an emergency do not fall under the definition of vigilante justice . Nor is the term vigilante justice used in terms of forms of action in the context of a permissible resistance to defend the legal order, for example in accordance with Article 20 (4) of the Basic Law .

Vigilante justice is a form of vigilantism . In contrast to self-proclaimed “ vigilante groups ”, who preventively “take the law into their own hands”, vigilante justice is individual and is carried out by the person concerned.

To justify an act of vigilante justice , it is usually cited that the state justice system fails. She is unable or unwilling to take action against the act perceived as injustice.

Vigilante justice disregards the state's monopoly of force and is therefore punishable .

Examples

Marianne Bachmeier shot her daughter's alleged murderer in the courtroom in 1981.
The in Überlingen mid-air collision service conducting air traffic controller Peter Nielsen was developed by Vitaly Kalojew stabbed his wife and two children were killed in the collision killed.
André Bamberski, the father of the killed Kalinka Bamberski , organized the deportation of the alleged perpetrator Dieter Krombach to France in 2009, 27 years after the murder, after German authorities had refused legal proceedings for years. In France, Krombach was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, Bamberski himself later to a one-year suspended sentence.