Wooden block killing/Holzklotz-Tötung
am 03.04.2008 von http://transblawg.eu
A few days ago, near Oldenburg, a 33-year-old woman died when the car she was a passenger in was hit by a 6-kilo lump of wood dropped from a motorway bridge .
A drawing of a group of young people who were near the bridge at the time has been widely circulated today and huge numbers of police are searching for the perpetrator or perpetrators.
I suppose whoever did it did not expect the consequences.
It reminds me of the English case of Hancock and Shankland. They were striking miners and during the strike they dropped a larger concrete block - 21 kg apparently - from a motorway bridge, apparently to stop a taxi taking strike breakers to work. The taxi driver was killed.
They were convicted of murder, but on appeal the sentence was reduced to manslaughter (I think this was involuntary manslaughter, that is, fahrlässige …
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