A man accused of killing six members of his family and seriously wounding two others is on trial from Monday in Germany.
During a family reunion, the alleged perpetrator took action, killing his parents, a half-brother, a half-sister, an aunt and an uncle, details the prosecution. The victims were between 36 and 69 years old. Two other family members were injured.
In total, the young man fired around thirty bullets before calling the police to surrender. He admitted the facts.
The accused had “long planned” to “kill his mother and half-sister because of alleged ill-treatment”, the prosecutor’s office said at the time, which did not exclude that he suffered from problems psychiatric, such as schizophrenia.
To this end, he had joined a shooting club and legally procured a weapon.
The trial is being held in the town of Ellwangen, the judgment is expected on July 10.
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