Crime scene: the whipping boy

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The whipping boy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 530 ( List )
First broadcast April 21, 2003 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Jauch
script Christian Limmer
music Stephan Massimo
camera Clemens Messow
cut Helga Kriller
occupation

The Whipping Boy is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on April 21, 2003 as the 34th case of the Batic investigative team, portrayed by Miroslav Nemec , Leitmayr, portrayed by Udo Wachtveitl and Carlo Menzinger, alias Michael Fitz , in the first program of ARD .

action

Chief Inspector Ivo Batic has taken a vacation because his cousin Branka wants to spend some time with her husband Darko and their 15-year-old daughter Malina. Batic is looking forward to his family members from the small town of Mitrovica . During his vacation, his colleagues, Chief Inspector Franz Leitmayr and Chief Inspector Carlo Menzinger, have to work together with Chief Inspector Wolfgang Hackl from Nuremberg , who is taking over Batic's vacation replacement for 14 days. The rather unconventional Menzinger immediately notices him when they first meet him. The commissioners are called to a case in which a man tied and gagged to a tree has been murdered. When Menzinger comes to the crime scene with Hackl, Batic and Leitmayr are already there. These two also quickly become annoyed by Hackl's manner. Batic says that this case seems to be about his compatriots. Hackl is extremely meticulous in his investigations, later he explains that the victim was probably brought to a place where the Isar was so loud that screams were drowned in the roar of the water. He also said that the murder was probably politically motivated, and that the UÇK mark was left on the tree he photographed . The dead person is the Kosovar Albanian Maruf Selmani.

Batic, who is on the road with Darko, who allegedly wants to buy a car, meets his colleague Leitmayr and Wolfgang Hackl at the used car dealer Fritz Wagner, who want to interview Wagner about the current case. When Batic interferes in the questioning of Wagner, Hackl wants to forbid him to do so. There are fights in which Wagner is injured by Batic. Hackl threatens his colleague with consequences, a fine and a downgrade by one rank. Leitmayr calls his friend and colleague later that he could not dissuade Wagner from filing criminal charges against him. Ivo must assume that Hackl will describe the process in detail in his protocol. Branka advises him to apologize to the “car man” before it's too late. Batic, who has had plenty of alcohol with Darko, gets into a taxi and wants to make atonement with Wagner with a spirit . He tells the taxi driver to wait for him. When he tried to hand Wagner the bottle with an apology, his eyes suddenly widen in horror and the inspector was knocked down.

When he comes to, Wagner, who has been stabbed and mutilated, lies dead next to him. The taxi driver says that apart from Ivo Batic nobody was on the premises. When Batic wants to go home, he is stopped by Hackl, who arrived at the crime scene with Leitmayr. He absolutely wants to take the colleague with him to the station and maintains that he is the main suspect. Leitmayr steps in and takes responsibility for his friend. In his apartment, Darko, who is also a police officer, explains that the family is always there for him. In the further course of the investigation, Hackl repeated like a prayer wheel that Batic was the main suspect in the Wagner case. He also threatens Leitmayr and Menzinger that he will disclose their practices. Menzinger has now done some research on Hackl and found that he had a steep career pretty quickly. He was with the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for several years , his specialty there was Kosovo. Carlo also finds it striking that, as soon as Hackl was with them, there were two dead Albanians. Hackl left the Office for the Protection of the Constitution a year and a half ago at his own request. He wasn't very popular in his department. At the time he had a clash with a Serb whose front tooth he had knocked out. The proceedings against him were then put down. He is also known as a racist who feels threatened by ethnic minorities . Although Leitmayr Hackl doesn't like it either, he thinks it's a bit far-fetched. Hackl, on the other hand, tells Leitmayr that Wagner was suspected of having supported the UÇK in buying weapons. Hackl is able to translate the letter found with Wagner, which leads on the trail of the Albanian Shakir. When the commissioners ask the Imam and other believers about Shakir in the mosque , a young man escapes on a moped and is followed by Leitmayr in his car. As he moves away from the road, it becomes difficult for Leitmayr to follow him on the narrow forest paths by car. In the end, the inspector had an accident and hit his head violently on the steering wheel. The young man can escape.

In a later conversation with the imam, the latter means that Shakir has nothing to do with Selmani's murder, that he is illegal in Germany and therefore fled from him. Selmani was his friend. He gives Leitmayr the address of a travel agency run by the Albanian Milic. Darko tells Ivo that there is a suspicion that cars were being prepared for the UÇK in Wagner's workshop. B. with car bombs . When Leitmayr tries to search Selmani's apartment, he finds his sick, bedridden father there. The old man says that his son thought he could run away from death. But he knew that something like this would happen. His son Maruf has been persecuted for two years, he has seen something he shouldn't have seen. Of course, he also knows Shakir, and he and his son have been friends since we were children. As a result, there is another incident with Ivo and Darko in Milic's travel agency, whereupon Leitmayer sees no other option than to ask Ivo to give him his ID card and his pistol. Batic only reluctantly complies with this request.

Hackl tells his colleagues Leitmayr and Menzinger that Schakir had eleven people on his conscience who were victims of a car bomb. During an interrogation he had clearly committed himself to the KLA, but denied ever having been a member. Darko tries to get Batic to speak to Milic again to find out where Shakir is. When Batic gives in and goes to Milic with him, he helps with physical force to get the information that Shakir is in his hunting lodge in the forest. Leitmayr now learns from Hackl that three of the masterminds behind the car bomb had been found in a grave, shot in the neck. Only Selmani and Shakir had escaped. The inspectors learn from Milic where Shakir can be found and set off for the forest hut. When Schakir sees Batic and Darko in front of it, he escapes from the window. The men follow him. On the way, Batic discovers that Darko's alleged hand injury was faked, his plaster cast is on the forest floor. Then he hears a shot. He succeeds in protecting himself in front of Shakir. Darko implores him to help him, Shakir and Maruf Selmani had witnessed an execution , if he let Shakir live he would testify against him. Then his family would be broken. Leitmayr and Hackl join them. Ivo finds it difficult to extradite Darko - primarily because of Malina and Branka, who confessed to him that she is pregnant again. Darko, who had already entered Germany two days earlier with the knowledge of his wife, tortured and shot Selmani and also Wagner on the conscience, Shakir should be another victim. The main purpose of the visit to Commissioner Batic in Munich was to get to the men. Filled with tears, Branka tells Ivo that she had to help Darko, that he is her husband and she loves him.

reception

Reviews

The scene of the crime was heavily criticized by the Franconian side for the depiction of the Franconian temporary commissioner in the Munich investigative team.

“More than 6.6 million TV viewers were once again served the cliché of the puffy, small-minded and know-it-all franc. [...] Commissioner Hackl has been misused by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation to prepare known prejudices of the old Bavarians against the Franks. "

- Markus Söder , then head of the CSU media commission : Spiegel Online

"'Commissioner Hackl has been abused by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation to prepare known prejudices of the old Bavarians against the Franks," said Söder. It is also out of the question that the Franconian investigator was characterized as a racist. "

- Stern.de

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Der Prügelknabe on April 21, 2003 was seen by 6.64 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 20.5% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dispute over piefige Francs. How the "crime scene" divides Bavaria. Spiegel Online, April 22, 2003, accessed on May 28, 2015 (Markus Söder is quoted verbatim in the article): "The latest episode of the ARD series" Tatort "has apparently deepened the age-old gap between Franconia and Bavaria."
  2. ^ Reparation to Francs. Stern.de, April 22, 2003, accessed on May 17, 2019 : "In the" Tatort "episode" The Whipping Boy "on Easter Monday, the Franconian CSU media politician Markus Söder believes that the Franks were ridiculed."
  3. ↑ The whipping boy. Crime scene fund, accessed on May 28, 2018 .
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