Eyewitnesses to a robbery are to testify in the Drach trial
Trial day in Cologne
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Eyewitnesses to a robbery are to testify in the Drach trial
Cologne On Wednesday, the court in Cologne will continue hearing evidence in the case of a robbery of a money transporter at Cologne/Bonn Airport. The public prosecutor’s office lays the crime against Reemtsma kidnapper Thomas Drach and his co-defendants. The process goes on.
On Wednesday (9.15 a.m.) the trial against Reemtsma kidnapper Thomas Drach is to take place before the Cologne district court. It is planned to continue taking evidence in the event of an attack on a money transporter at Cologne/Bonn Airport in March 2019. According to the presiding judge on Monday, eyewitnesses to the robbery in which a money messenger was shot should be heard.
In addition to the robbery at the airport, Drach is also accused of three other robberies of money transporters in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and Limburg in Hesse. The 61-year-old is charged with aggravated robbery and attempted murder because he is said to have fatally injured two money messengers with shots. A suspected accomplice is sitting next to Drach in the dock. The Dutchman is said to have been the getaway driver in the robbery at the airport.
In 1996, Drach kidnapped the heir to the Hamburg tobacco company Reemtsma and only released him after a ransom had been paid. He was sentenced to fourteen and a half years in prison for the crime.