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Invented statements in the Lübcke process. The Kassel public prosecutor’s office is investigating Frank Hannig, a lawyer from Dresden.
A preliminary investigation was initiated against the former defense attorney for the main defendant in the Lübcke trial, the Dresden attorney Frank Hannig. A spokesman for the Kassel public prosecutor told the Frankfurter Rundschau on Tuesday that the initial suspicion of inciting false suspicion is being investigated.
Hannig had defended the alleged murderer of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke (CDU), Stephan Ernst, in the criminal proceedings before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court until he was recalled from the proceedings at the end of July. His client Ernst had previously requested that his defense counsel be released, because the trust in Hannig had been shattered due to unsettled requests for evidence.
Ernst had given different information about the course of the murder of Lübcke in the investigation and in court. After he had initially confessed to the crime, he later revoked his testimony and accused his friend Markus H., who is accused of aiding and abetting, of having shot Lübcke. Ernst then stated in court that this second version of the crime had been invented by his lawyer Hannig. He wanted to provoke Markus H. to make a statement. Further witnesses in court had confirmed that Ernst’s second version of the crime was due to Hannig.
Alfred Dierlamm, Frank Hannig’s lawyer, told the FR that Hannig himself would not comment at the moment. “We have already contacted the public prosecutor in Kassel and offered to cooperate in clarifying the facts,” said Dierlamm.
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