He killed a 20-year-old cashier with a gunshot to the head for asking him to wear a face mask.
Germany is in shock over what happened at a petrol station in Idar Oberstein, a city in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The perpetrator, a 49-year-old man, admitted the fact and was arrested. This is the reconstruction of the facts of the Police: when the twenty-year-old scolded him for having no mask, the man said he had forgotten it, then went home to get a gun. Returning to the distributor still without a mask, at the second mention of the boy to the device, he fired a shot straight to the head and killed him.
“I was under pressure from the pandemic, I reject the anti-Covid measures and I felt cornered. I wanted to give a signal, ”the murderer told the officers.
The case is shaking the whole of Germany and aroused indignation in the political world as well.
"The facts must be clarified, and the person responsible must pay for what he did. The Covid deniers are already exploiting the thing online. We observe and consistently pursue hatred", said the president of the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate. , Malu Dreyer.
Even the chancellor candidates: "The radicalization of the denial scene worries me a lot - said the green leader Annalena Baerbock -. We are all called to rise up against this phenomenon".
"I am shocked by the death of a person who would have wanted to protect others and himself," commented Social Democratic Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "As a society we must stand up to hatred with determination", is the reaction of the leader and president of the CDU, Armin Laschet.
(Unioneonline / L)
