Ingolstadt: Have you been out and about with a pistol since you were a teenager?

On Tuesday, some witnesses from the Turkish café, which had become the scene of the crime, were questioned without anything new being known. As expected, there was greater gain in knowledge from the forensic and psychological reports.

What kind of person is the accused 38-year-old Kurd, what is his background and what educational horizon does he have, what drove him to the bloody act on June 19 last year? During the trial, the personality of the man has already been highlighted, but so far only the Munich physician Maximilian Wertz, a specialist in forensic psychology, who was commissioned with the exploration, had been told by the defendant.

According to the notes of this expert, the defendant did not start school in his Turkish homeland until he was eight years old and went to school for only a few years. Nevertheless, he wants to have a high school diploma (what he calls it) and later worked in Turkey for a textile company, but most recently as a real estate agent in the tourism industry. According to his own statements, he came into conflict with the law in Turkey when he – allegedly only as a small light – was active in a check fraud for the mafia. There is also said to have been a trial here and, later, when he was already in Germany (from 2007), there was also a conviction in absentia. It is said that he has not been able to visit his homeland for a long time.

Those involved in the process as well as observers were surprised by the statement made by the man to the psychologist that he had “regularly carried” the pistol used in the act in Ingolstadt since he was 16 years old. During the trial itself, the defendant had testified that he had only owned the Czech weapon for about two years.

In addition to that the semi-automatic? It may have a longer and darker history, but it fits with the findings of the State Criminal Police Office that the ammunition used on the evening of the crime consisted of cartridges of different ages and different manufacturers.

In Germany, the man initially claims to have run a Turkish caf in Gttingen and also did some manual work. When he came to the Ingolstadt region, it was not clear from the report. After all, he was last registered in the Eichsttt district, and he is said to have been working as a self-employed paver from 2017 – probably with rather moderate success. Because of the company’s debts, but also because of failure to pay alimony – he allegedly has a separated wife and three children – he claims that the Kurds have debts in the high five-digit range.

Regarding the history of the crime, the defendant testified to the psychologist that he had not got over the humiliation caused by the beatings of the compatriot who was later shot by him (DK reported repeatedly). He heard statements from the car repair shop operator, according to which he, the 38-year-old, had to “kiss the older man’s feet” before he was accepted by him again. On that evening he was “approached” by the opponent in the restaurant on Ettinger Strasse. That is why there was an act of affect. The psychologist: “He couldn’t cope with the offense any more.”

The shots in the Turkish cafe were then a matter of seconds. Three of the four projectiles fired had hit the 50-year-old workshop owner, who had been sitting at a table with five other men. Forensic doctor Randolph Penning, who was still on the road for the relevant institute at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilians University after his retirement, reported in detail on Tuesday about the injury picture already recorded by a colleague at the scene of the crime and about the results of the autopsy of the body.

As previously reported, the 50-year-old Kurd was hit twice in the back in the shoulder area and once in the back in the right arm. While the injuries on the arm and in the left chest caused severe but not acutely life-threatening injuries, the bullet from the right shoulder behind the left collarbone was fatal: Here the bullet had torn several veins and especially the right carotid artery, so that the man bled to death within minutes. He passed out after about five seconds, the forensic doctor said. Penning: “Despite the emergency doctor, he never had a chance with the injury.”

The process will continue next Monday. Then the psychiatric report should first be given and later the pleadings should be held. DK

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