The verdict against Stephan Ernst, the murderer of the Kassel district president Walter Lübcke, is final. But the members of the Hessian state parliament still have questions for him.
Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – The Lübcke investigative committee in the Hessian state parliament wants to interview the convicted murderer Stephan Ernst as a witness at the beginning of November this year. The meeting on November 4th was envisaged as a date, said the committee chairman Christian Heinz (CDU) on Thursday at the request of the German Press Agency in Wiesbaden. Now that the verdict against Ernst is final, he can be questioned. “We’ll see to what extent he gets involved,” said Heinz. The co-defendant Markus H. should be questioned on November 25th. The committee had agreed on this at a meeting before the summer break.
The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) announced on Thursday in Karlsruhe that the verdict against the murderer of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke is final. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Frankfurt sentenced the right-wing extremist Ernst to life imprisonment in January 2021 and determined the particular gravity of the guilt.
The Higher Regional Court had considered it proven that the 48-year-old Ernst had killed the CDU politician Lübcke late in the evening on June 1, 2019 at home on his terrace at close range with a shot in the head.
The OLG had sentenced the co-defendant Markus H., a friend of Ernst from the right-wing scene, to a suspended sentence of one and a half years for a weapon offense – but not as accused of being an accessory to the murder of Lübcke. He was released in October 2020. This decision is also final.
The state parliament investigation committee is investigating the role of the Hessian security authorities in the murder case.
