Police roll over 15-year-olds: further investigations
The victim’s family strongly criticized this approach. She submits a request to the judicial authorities through her lawyer, according to which the investigation should be reopened. According to the Kronenzeitung, this has now been complied with.
A senate of three judges has now apparently recognized a suspected breach of care by the police officer, it is said. According to investigators, this man drove the minibus that killed the young person.
“Police officer should have calculated a fall”
According to the Kronenzeitung, there is now a five-page decision by the court that reverses the previous course of the proceedings. According to this, the accused officer would have been obliged to calculate a fall of the fleeing youth with his own driving style. However, he acted “at too small a depth distance and thus objectively (and presumably also subjectively) carelessly,” it says in the last paragraph.
The decision is already final, reports the newspaper. It also means that there could still be criminal consequences against the police officer.
At the end of February, the Salzburg public prosecutor announced that the investigation into the case had been discontinued because there was no evidence of negligent homicide.
What happened in the accident
On November 18, the 15-year-old drives away on his moped without light strip crews. On a dirt road in St. Andrä, near his parents’ house, there was a serious fall. The driver of the police minibus driving behind was unable to brake. The lad deadly attacks. As a result, there were investigations into suspicion of negligent homicide, which should now become natural again after the setting.