The former Reemtsma kidnapper may soon be on trial for attempted murder. A corresponding charge was brought by the Cologne public prosecutor’s office on Thursday.
Cologne – Former Reemtsma kidnapper Thomas Drach has been charged with three attacks on money transporters. The Cologne public prosecutor’s office accused him of, among other things, attempted murder and particularly serious robbery, the Cologne regional court announced on Thursday.
In May Drach was extradited from the Netherlands to Germany after being arrested in an Amsterdam apartment in February. Since then he has been in custody in Cologne. A 52-year-old Dutchman who is said to have helped him is also accused.
In 1996 Drach and accomplices kidnapped the Hamburg heir to the tobacco dynasty, Jan Philipp Reemtsma. For this he was sentenced to fourteen and a half years in prison.
Drach, who was born in Erftstadt near Cologne, is said to have committed three attacks on money transports in Cologne and Frankfurt / Main in 2018 and 2019. The allegation of attempted murder relates to the attack in Frankfurt.
Drach is said to have snatched the money box from the messenger and then ran away. The messenger then fired a shot at the fleeing dragon. Thereupon the latter shot at the money messenger while he was running and approved his death in the process.
The public prosecutor sees greed and the intention to hide as characteristics of murder. Drach are also charged with: particularly serious robbery in three cases, dangerous bodily harm in two cases, violation of the War Weapons Control Act in two cases, violation of the Weapons Act, forgery of documents and arson in three cases. dpa
