Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – According to his own statement, a police officer who was seriously injured at the time can hardly remember the decisive seconds of a dramatic traffic control of a suspected “Reich citizen” in the Black Forest. He only knows that he got out of his patrol car during the incident and ran towards the accused man’s car, the 40-year-old police chief said on Wednesday before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court. There, a 62-year-old from the Lörrach district has to answer for attempted murder.
The federal prosecutor accuses the German of intentionally driving over the policeman in February. It is the first charge that the federal prosecutor’s office has brought against a “Reich citizen”. At the beginning of the process, the 62-year-old had given no information on the matter. So-called Reich citizens and “self-administrators” deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and its legal system, they deny politicians and civil servants their legitimacy and repeatedly break the law.
The federal prosecutor is convinced that the man deliberately drove off after a failed traffic stop and a chase, putting “his personal freedom above the life of the police officer”. The officer was badly injured at the time and can no longer work as a police officer. “I’ve become a different person in character,” he said. He has lost his self-confidence, is emotionally deadened and more irritable. “At night I regularly have dreams of headlights coming my way.”
