Death of Eschli

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The Eschli death is a criminal case from the German rocker milieu . On October 8, 2009 , the Bandidos member Rudi Heinz Elten (born June 24, 1977 in Bottrop ), known as "Eschli", was shot on the street in Duisburg . A Hells Angel - Prospect and MMA fighter was sentenced to 11 years in prison for manslaughter for the act . Some media pounced on the case and reported the background both shortly after the crime and during the trial. A "rocker war" between Hells Angels and Bandidos was predicted and in fact there were increased clashes in the rocker milieu.

background

Rudi Heinz Elten belonged to the hooligan scene of FC Schalke 04 , the so-called "Gelsen scene". The man with a criminal record for robbery , dangerous bodily harm , breach of the peace and threats , who had worked as a bouncer and debt collector, joined the Bandidos and began a career as a pimp almost at the same time . Officially registered as unemployed , he placed prostitutes and participated in a brothel .

Elten was considered violent and hardly controllable in the rocker scene. Before a summit meeting between Hells Angels and Bandidos in December 2008, Peter Maczollek admonished Elten to take it easy.

Elten's death

On October 8, 2009, the perpetrator and his brother stopped at a red light in Duisburg not far from the Duisburg Bandidos clubhouse. There had already been arguments about a woman between the perpetrator and the parents. Elten recognized his rival and began to provoke him. The perpetrator then pulled a gun, but Elten continued to provoke him. According to witness statements, he should have shouted “Come on, do it, shoot!”. The perpetrator fired four shots. One of them hit Elten in the head. Ricochets barely missed two uninvolved women. The perpetrator and his brother then fled. Elten died in the emergency room. The perpetrator turned himself in to the police a day later.

The funeral took place on October 16, 2009 in the main cemetery in Gelsenkirchen. 1,500 bandidos from Europe attended the funeral service. The police operation, which was supposed to prevent escalations between the two rocker groups, cost around 600,000 euros. However, the burial took place peacefully. A video of the funeral service was recorded and posted on YouTube . Furthermore, the Bandidos community remembers the deceased according to its rules and rituals. This includes so-called memorial runs, i.e. joint trips, and memorial pages on the Internet.

process

The perpetrator was sentenced to eleven years in prison by a Duisburg jury . The court found manslaughter and thus denied a self-defense situation. The court found it was proven that the perpetrator only shot so as not to lose face. According to the judges, there was no threatening situation, but the murder characteristic of maliciousness was missing . The procedure took place under massive security precautions. Representatives of both clubs came to the trial days and had to be shielded from each other by the police.

Significance in the rocker scene

On December 10, 2008, the Hells Angels and the Bandidos concluded a " peace treaty " at a summit meeting in a Magdeburg hotel. After Elten was shot less than a year later, the agreement lapsed and there were various violent crimes between the two clubs, especially in Duisburg. Since the murder, the city has been a special point of conflict between the two clubs, as the districts would overlap here. On May 17, 2010, there was a mutual attack on the respective clubhouses, whereby the police were unable to intervene in view of the number of violent rockers on both sides. In the course of these developments, the “Rocker Crime” special commission in North Rhine-Westphalia was expanded. The two high-ranking bandidos Peter Maczollek and Leslav Heimat dedicated their book, Pretty Evil Friends, to Eschli, as well as an entire chapter. In this chapter, Leslav home reports on Eschli's death from the perspective of the Bandidos, comments on the process and tells of the funeral ceremonies.

Media attention

Some media reported of a "rocker war" in Germany, which could only be ended with the mediation of lawyer Götz von Fromberg in a "peace treaty" that was widely noticed by some media. The West German Broadcasting Corporation included the case in its chronicle of contemporary history, which is also retained on the broadcasting station's side according to the provisions of the State Broadcasting Treaty . About the act and the process was in several books about the rocker scene, such as Jörg Diehl, Thomas Heise, Claas Meyer-Heuer's book Rockerkrieg. Why Hells Angels and Bandidos are becoming more and more dangerous as well as Stefan Schubert's How the Hells Angels conquered Germany's underworld , reports. In the documentary Hells Angels vs. Bandidos - The Rocker War , pictures of the trial are shown and the case is reported.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d Jörg Diehl, Thomas Heise, Claas Meyer-Heuer: Rockerkrieg. Why Hells Angels and Bandidos are getting more and more dangerous . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04569-0 , pp. 177-189 . On-line
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  4. ↑ Jörg Diehl, Thomas Heise, Claas Meyer-Heuer: Rockerkrieg. Why Hells Angels and Bandidos are getting more and more dangerous . 2013, p. 181 .
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  6. ↑ Murder: perpetrator turned himself in to the police. Neue Ruhr Zeitung , October 9, 2009, accessed on May 1, 2013 .
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  8. ↑ Gerhard Voogt: Rocker funeral costs 600,000 euros. RP Online , October 19, 2009, accessed April 30, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Stefan Schubert: How the Hells Angels conquered Germany's underworld . 2nd Edition. Riva Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86883-248-8 , p. 245 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Rodenbücher: Duisburg: "Nobody wanted to lose face" - 11 years imprisonment for the Hells-Angels Timur Akbulut. xtranews.de, August 30, 2010, accessed April 30, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Hells Angels vs. Bandidos - The Rocker War , documentary France 2012
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  14. ↑ Stefan Schubert: How the Hells Angels conquered Germany's underworld . 2013, p. 249 .
  15. ↑ Leslav home: The little brother . In: Pretty bad friends - How we founded the Bandidos in Germany . Riva Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86883-288-4 , p. 175-183 .
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