Kitzingen. Rapid investigation success for the police task force “Smart”: After the arson attack on the car parked in front of a party office in Kitzingen, the police have now arrested a suspect. He confessed to the crime.
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The accused had carried out an arson attack on the vehicle of city and district councilor Uwe Hartmann (Bavaria party) in Kitzingen in the week before last (we reported). The Würzburg criminal police assumed from the outset that the car was intentionally set on fire.
The fire brigade was just able to prevent the flames from spreading to the local politician’s house.
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The police quickly considered a political background for the crime. A connection with a recent announcement by Hartmann that in future he wants to hold a vigil for the Corona dead on the Kitzinger Marktplatz every Sunday was apparently also the subject of the investigation.
A 27-year-old suspect was provisionally arrested on Friday morning. At the request of the Würzburg public prosecutor’s office, he was brought before the investigating judge at the district court on Saturday. Due to the urgent suspicion of particularly serious arson, the latter issued a pre-trial arrest warrant, which was suspended subject to conditions.
The vehicle parked in Obere Neue Gasse caught fire on Friday, February 4th. The suspicion of intentional arson had been substantiated over the course of the week after the fire investigators from the Würzburg Criminal Police Office, together with specialists from the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, were able to prove beyond any doubt the remains of an incendiary accelerator on the vehicle wreck.
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In the course of the intensive investigations by EKO “Smart”, which were always conducted in close consultation with the Würzburg public prosecutor’s office, there was evidence of a 27-year-old suspect from the Kitzingen area within a very short time.
The man was temporarily arrested at his home address on Friday morning. During the search, officials found various pieces of evidence that can be linked to the crime. During his interrogation, the suspect finally admitted that he had intentionally set the car on fire for political reasons. pol
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