In a deadly collision, the SUV struck several people, two died and one person was seriously injured.
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The accused killed two people when he raced through Frankfurt’s Ostend in November 2020 in his 625 hp BMW. He seriously injured a woman. In court, he says that the public prosecutor’s office wrongly accuses him of having drifted.
BBefore the hearing in the Frankfurt district court really gets going, the defense attorneys want to make a statement. According to the lawyers, their client had been “considerably prejudiced by the media”, which could influence the perception of the lay judges. Whenever highly motorized vehicles are involved in a crime, an “emotional, irrelevant assessment of the facts” takes place. They say that the public prosecutor’s office changed the legal assessment of the fatal accident in Frankfurt’s Ostend in November 2020 after the opinion of an expert, and that the accusation of murder suddenly appeared. Before the lunch break, they file a motion for bias against the expert who prepared the report.
And the lawyers say: The defendant did not condone the deaths of people and also did not drift, as the indictment says. That’s exactly what the public prosecutor’s office accuses the 40-year-old man in the dock: On November 21, 2020, he was with his 625 hp company car, a BMW X6 Competition, which can accelerate from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour in four seconds. deliberately drifted in a curve of the Sonnemannstrasse. He had previously switched off the car’s stability safety system because otherwise the drifting would have been prevented. The accused lost control and did not brake, which is why the car hit a 27-year-old Lieferando driver at an impact speed of 82 kilometers per hour, then a 31-year-old, severely visually impaired student and her 61-year-old father loaded a cupboard into their vehicle parked on the sidewalk. The men died, the woman survived with serious injuries.