Cologne: rockers organize smear theater in court | Regional
Cologne – What an undignified gossip in a court case! Suddenly the victims can’t remember anything.
The case: Since Tuesday, three rockers (31, 39, 41), members of the “Hells Angels” Ostheim, have been in front of the Cologne district court for threats. According to the indictment, they attacked the president of the rival rocker club “Brothers MC” in Cologne-Porz last June and destroyed his hairdressing salon with baseball bats.
According to BILD information as a warning because the enemy “Brothers MC” rockers were illegally admitted to a territory controlled by the “Hells Angels”.
But with the beginning of the process, the bang: Completely unexpectedly, in addition to “Brothers” rocker boss Sascha L. (31), his fiancé Caroline (32) and two other rockers who were there on the night of the crime withdraw their statements.
Contrary to their statements to the police immediately after the crime, where they reported in detail about hooded perpetrators, bangs, tattooed faces, baseball bats and an Audi as the crime vehicle, suddenly nobody wants to have seen or heard anything anymore.
Examples: Barber and attack victim Sascha L. (31) is the first to sit in the witness chair. His skull is riddled with scars and tattoos. On the evening of June 7, he was renovating the hairdressing salon in Porz-Wahnheide with his fiancée Caroline (32) and two friends when a roll commando ran towards him.
The judge’s question: “Did you see something?” Sascha L.: “No.” The judge digs deeper: “You gave completely different information to the police.” L.: “I was loyal to people. But I can no longer identify with that.” There was a phone call and a meeting – from “Brothers” founder Brahim Z. and his co-boss Ivan M.
Brahim Z. “made a deal with the police,” he says. The prosecutor in disbelief: “It’s a bit strange what you’re saying today. Do you really think the police will make a deal with rockers?”
Sascha L. was shown photos of possible perpetrators – presumably the faces of the three “Hells Angels” rockers now accused. He should name her as the perpetrator to the police. Which he did. The judge reprimanded him: “That is a false testimony. You have committed a crime.” He will say this sentence several times that day…
The judge wants to know: “Was pressure put on you before the trial?” Sascha L. said no.
After him, Caroline (32), Sascha L’s fiancée, is called to the witness stand. The housewife and mother of two is said to have adopted the appearance. Nothing will come of it. The 32-year-old puts on an unbelievable show. “I was heavily pregnant and in a panic. Being a mother-to-be is stressful. I can’t say anything more about it,” she says. The judge accuses her of being much more talkative to the police, reporting on an “Asian” (one of the accused has Asian roots) who got out of the car on the evening of the crime and yelled around the whole time: “Is that Sascha? ”
Now she is fabulating: “It’s like walking through the dry desert for three days and not drinking anything. You see something you haven’t seen. I was hallucinating.”
Two more witnesses testify after her. They are rockers who have since dropped out. One of them is a tanker driver. The 33-year-old is also a heavy burden on Brahim Z. and his right hand Ivan M.
“They forced me to give false testimony. In the end, everything was a sham and a lie.” As a subordinate, he blindly followed orders from above. “That’s just the way it is in the club,” says the ex-rocker.
How is the process going now? Are three innocent people on trial as accused? Didn’t the police investigate correctly? Who are the real perpetrators of the attack and are they still walking loose? All this now the court to clarify in the coming negotiations. At the next meeting in early May, the presiding judge wants to summon the rockers Brahim Z. and Ivan M., the police officers investigating the case and even the investigating judge as witnesses.