Germany: Lynch mob kills in the middle of Cologne
The bloody deed happened on March 10 in the Höhenberg district of Cologne. Senad H. (37) slowly drives his Smart across Bamberger Straße, he wants to turn off. Suddenly the small car is surrounded by a horde of 30 men. One reaches through the passenger window and pulls the key out of the ignition. The rest of the mob yanks the 37-year-old out of the vehicle. They hit and kick him, they stab the defenseless man 17 times, one of the perpetrators hit him several times with a hammer. Then the attackers run away.
Despite emergency doctor, clinic and multiple emergency operations, the victim dies two weeks later in the clinic. The police secure video recordings and can thus identify some of the perpetrators, four are arrested. One of them is Halil H. The 31-year-old man has been on trial in the district court since November 23 for joint murder. The public prosecutor is certain that the reason for the lynching of the Roma was the video of the victim's brother.
Investigators now suspect a lynch mob abroad
The day before, he had put a video online in which he sang and slurred his fantasies of torture and murder against a rival Roma family, reported the Bild newspaper. He wields a gun in front of the camera. Then he chops off imaginary hands with a hatchet and is said to have made insulting remarks about the deceased of Halil H.'s family.
"The public prosecutor accuses the accused of having decided with his family to kill the injured party solely because of his family affiliation," a spokeswoman for the district court told the Express in the run-up to the trial . "All members of the accused's extended family should participate in this." The police are looking for other perpetrators with international arrest warrants. Investigators suspect that the lynch mob has fled abroad.
The day before, he had put a video online in which he sang and slurred his fantasies of torture and murder against a rival Roma family, reported the Bild newspaper. He wields a gun in front of the camera. Then he chops off imaginary hands with a hatchet and is said to have made insulting remarks about the deceased of Halil H.'s family.
"The public prosecutor accuses the accused of having decided with his family to kill the injured party solely because of his family affiliation," a spokeswoman for the district court told the Express in the run-up to the trial . "All members of the accused's extended family should participate in this." The police are looking for other perpetrators with international arrest warrants. Investigators suspect that the lynch mob has fled abroad.
Source: Junge Freiheit
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