BGH decides over 30 -year -old arson attack with a fatal outcome

BGH decides over 30 -year -old arson attack with a fatal outcome

On January 23, 2025, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe will decide on a devastating arson attack, which was more than 30 years ago. In 1991, a 20-year-old man out of hatred on foreigners set up an asylum seeker home in Saarlouis with petrol. A man died during this attack, while 21 other residents were in the building, 20 of whom were able to save themselves, but some of whom had to deal with serious injuries, including broken bones. The retrospective investigations of the 90s were initially stopped. It was not until 2007 that the accused admitted the crime in a personal conversation with a woman at a barbecue, which finally led to an advertisement and further investigation.

The BGH will deal with the revision of the accused, the federal prosecutor and four side plants who were laid against the judgment of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Koblenz. The accused had condemned this in 2023 for murder and in twelve other cases for attempted murder. At the hearing, which took place in Karlsruhe on Thursday, the question arose whether the OLG had to go out of attempted murder among the eight other people who were in the brightly lit, which was mentioned in the brightly lit.

The legal dispute

The co -plaintiffs, who were among the eight people in the asylum seeker home, require a correction of the judgment. The Koblenz Senate argued that the accused could accept due to the circumstances that the residents could get to safety in good time. However, the lawyer of the co -plaintiffs denounced an allegedly incomplete assessment of evidence by the OLG and called for the judicial review of this assumption.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office pointed out at the hearing that there were no legal errors that would justify a lifting of the judgment. Your representative applied for rejecting the revisions and maintaining the Koblenz judgment. This could gain the pressing legal dispute over the responsibility of the accused and the assessment of the risk to the other residents again.

The background of the attack

The attack on the asylum seeker home, which was motivated from xenophobic hatred, still throws a shadow on society, especially in view of the ongoing debates about racism and integration in Germany. The fact that the perpetrator remained undetected over three decades raises questions about the effectiveness and the course of the investigation in the 1990s, which were subsequently set without any significant results.

The outcome of this negotiation, whose decision is made on January 23, 2025, could not only affect the legal consequences for the accused after such a long time after the crime, but also initiate important social and legal policy discourses. rheinpfalz.de and Zeit.de report on the current developments, while Islamiq.de provides additional contexts to the racist motifs of the arson attack. The case remains not only a legal, but also a social focus topic.