Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Explaining The Double Policemen Murder in Kusel

 To simplify the story:

Last Monday morning, around 4:20 AM....two German police are on patrol around the rural northern region of Kusel, Germany (a fairly quiet town in the Pfalz).  What German cops typically expect from the night-shift are drunks, car accidents, and on occasion...ATM machines being blown up.  

On some rural road, the two cops come around a bend, and there's some vehicle parked to the side.  This patrol team is made up of an experienced 29-year old policeman, and a rookie (yet to graduate) female (I should note, she was certified to carry a gun and had one on herself).

The parked vehicle looked suspicious and they pull to the side of the road.

What you have there....are two guys (one apparently in some butcher's apron), and a number of freshly shot deer (the number of 22 dead deer comes up often in the news).  It's way more than the average hunter would have and the police decide to 'report' on the incident....meaning they ask for a driver's license and national ID card.

Somewhere in this tense moment....the butcher apron hunter....pulls a weapon and shoots dead the female trainee cop (she never has a chance to draw her gun) and the second cop has a brief chance to draw his gun....firing off all rounds before he is shot dead.

The ID card/driver's license?  Left on the ground.....as the two hunters scramble to leave. 

In the midst of the action....the male policeman does get a chance to radio in the situation, and a reaction team is mounted....but arrives to find only the two bodies.

By the end of Monday, the two hunters give themselves up.

One guy was simply a witness....not shooting and was not really doing much but to help lift the dead deer.  So he is telling most of the story.  

The second guy is interesting.  Failed bakery owner....turned into wild-game hunter/butcher.  The wild game deal is lucrative....paying him 10k Euro a month for the last couple of months of 2021.  But here's the thing....he has no gun license, no hunting license, and apparently no business license for this butcher shop he is running.  

If the two cops had turned in their report....an investigation would have started up and a search would have detailed tax trouble, illegal business trouble, gun trouble, hunting trouble, and probably gotten this one guy a minimum of ten years in prison.  A search of the butcher shop revealed at least 500 wild boar/deer brought in for 2021.  

In the days since the shooting?  At least a hundred individuals have popped up on social media with police-hate-chat and it's creating a new investigation situation.  All of these characters will get a court invitation and probable fine activity (maybe even a couple of months of jail-time).  

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