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It wasn’t a murder

The trial against a Kawasaki driver and YouTube filmmaker from Bremen made headlines across Germany. Because the charge was murder after an accident. Now the verdict has been given.

Michael Schumann

January 31, 2017

In June 2016, a 24-year-old from Bremen hit a 75-year-old pensioner with his Kawasaki in Bremen at night and was fatally injured in the process. In January 2017, he was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for negligent homicide.

The case had become known nationwide because the Bremen public prosecutor’s office had initially charged the motorcyclist with manslaughter and then with murder. The much weaker accusation of negligent homicide is common against those who cause accidents resulting in death.

The murder charge was based, among other things, on the fact that the Kawa driver had filmed his frenzies – sometimes at speeds of up to 170 km / h through the city of Bremen – and published comments on his own YouTube channel and earned money with it.

No more videos on the Yotube channel

In the course of the several-week hearing, however, two experts were able to credibly demonstrate to the court that the defendant did not accept the accident for baseless reasons or even cause it deliberately. As a result, the public prosecutor withdrew from the murder charge.

In his plea, the prosecutor called for seven years and two months in prison for manslaughter. The man’s lawyers, on the other hand, pleaded for suspended sentence for negligent homicide, claiming that the victim had wanted to cross the street when it was red.

In the event of a murder conviction, the operator of the YouTube channel would have “Alpi drives” expected for life. The channel still exists; however, the videos were deleted shortly after the accident in summer 2016.

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