Crime – Berlin – Suspected coke taxi driver charged after shots – Panorama
Berlin (dpa / bb) – After quickly fatal shots at the customer of a “coke taxi”, the Berlin public prosecutor’s office has accused the alleged driver. She accuses the 36-year-old of attempted manslaughter in combination with dangerous bodily harm and violation of the weapons law, as a spokesman said on Thursday.
The German is said to have fired several shots at the victim’s upper body on November 28, 2021 at Mariendorfer Damm. The now 31-year-old was seriously injured and did not need surgery, according to police.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, one of the questions that the Berlin Regional Court now has to clarify is whether the dispute broke out because the man had ordered the so-called coke taxi, but then did not have the necessary money for the cocaine. It was initially unclear when the process would begin. According to the spokesman for the authorities, the alleged perpetrator is in custody.
At the time, the 36-year-old assumed he had shot the man, it said. Immediately after the shots he fled to Turkey, where he was born. At the end of March, however, the accused returned, although he knew that there was an arrest warrant against him. He wanted to face the procedure, it said.
Immediately after the crime, two men aged 23 and 24 were arrested. According to a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office, the suspicion against them has not been substantiated. The extent to which the men were involved in the event WILL be examined in another procedure. The investigations into drug trafficking with the “coke taxi” are also carried out in a separate procedure, it was said.
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