B. and V. wanted to lead “a cool gangster life”, said the presiding judge Regina Holstein to explain the disturbing fact. They would have wanted to deal in arms and commit robberies. According to the court, the trigger for the crime previously considered by B. was that one of the murder victims, 21-year-old Vincent von P., wanted to go on a killing spree in a shopping center in Munich-Pasing and die – and the main perpetrator B. feared that he would then no longer be able to get hold of his valuable weapons.
The case, which caused a sensation nationwide, took place in a clique of adolescent gun enthusiasts from Starnberg, who, according to the judge, called themselves the “Starnberg idiots” and whose hobby was to shoot around with their guns. This group included the main accused B., but also von P., his friend and later victim. According to the court, the parents had to die because B. feared that they might expose him as P.’s murderer.
Initially, the investigators assumed that von P. first shot his parents and then himself. After being arrested for illegal possession of a weapon two weeks after the crime, B. surprisingly confessed to the triple murder.
The judge said the flawed police investigation had traumatized the families of the three dead. During the trial, P.’s stepbrother reported that he hated his brother because of the supposed murder of his parents.
According to the court, the staging of the act as an extended suicide was part of a crime plan that B. and V. are said to have hatched together. According to this, B. should shoot his buddy from P. after consuming drugs together in order to get P.’s weapons and later be able to sell them for several hundred thousand euros.
V. is said not to have been directly involved in the murders. However, he is said to have driven B. to the scene of the crime and known that P. wanted to shoot him. V. is said to have had the idea of making the crime look like suicide and asked B. to make a film of the crimes. Both men were aware that P.’s parents were in the house. However, B. made the decision alone to kill them, which is why V. was not sentenced for it as well.
With the sentence, the court remained within the demands of the public prosecutor’s office, which had demanded 13 years and six months in juvenile detention for both accused and the examination of preventive detention. The defense of the main perpetrator B. demanded twelve years of youth imprisonment, that of V. an acquittal of murder and a suspended sentence because of a robbery committed together with B.
