Pensioner Manfred N. is accused of shooting 38-year-old Pole Czeslaw Kukuczka, who wanted to flee to the West, in 1974 on the border between East and West Berlin.
In Germany, an 80-year-old former Stasi officer was sentenced to ten years in prison for a half-century-old murder. Bild reported this on Monday, October 14.
This decision was made today by the Berlin Regional Court. Pensioner Manfred N. is accused of shooting 38-year-old Pole Czeslaw Kukuczka, who wanted to flee to the West, in 1974 on the border between East and West Berlin. He was shot in the back by a 31-year-old Stasi lieutenant just as he was getting his passport stamped and was about to leave the GDR for the Federal Republic of Germany.
The murdered man’s children and sister are co-plaintiffs along with the German prosecutor’s office. The witnesses were students from Hesse who were crossing the border and saw the killing at the same time. The high-profile trial continued from March 14. The pensioner remained silent until the end.
At the meeting, the lawyer said that Manfred N. denied the allegations. All these years, he lived quietly in a private house near Leipzig. The prosecutor’s office became interested in him in the 1990s, but managed to convict him a fourth time when they received enough evidence.
Let’s remember that in 2022, the “Reichsburgers” are preparing a putsch in Germany, which, according to their plan, should lead to the establishment of power by the 71-year-old “Prince Henry XIII” – a descendant of the German noble family of the Royces, who ruled Thuringia in the 12th-20th centuries.
In Germany’s eight federal states, law enforcement officials searched 20 homes of members of the far-right extremist group the so-called “Reichsburgers,” who deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and consider themselves who are “citizens of the Reich.”
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