The Berlin judiciary has let the 28-year-old Turkish murderer Koray T. go free. In September 2016, he shot a taxi driver. The crime scene was the multi-cultural Kottbusser Tor, the occasion was a banal argument in which the perpetrator suddenly pulled out a firearm. Koray T. has German citizenship, emphasises the newspaper “B.Z.”.
He would have had to remain in Tegel Prison until May 16, 2026, but the prison management decided to grant him release. On August 22, 2022, he left the prison under guard. On August 27, he was then granted a whole day’s release without any supervision – and suddenly he was gone.
Berlin’s justice senator Lena Kreck of the Left Party defends the prison’s actions: “We have to do justice to resocialisation”. Her officials had done nothing wrong: “It was not a fixed idea, we are dealing with a fundamental right here.”
The idea that a German passport does not always and truly make a Turk into a German, but that someone who is supposed to spend many more years in prison could perhaps abscond to his old homeland, has apparently not occurred to anyone in Berlin’s political establishment and judiciary. Koray T. can pat himself on the back and laugh at the stupid German krauts.
In an evaluation of judicial officials on the unaccompanied day release of Koray T., the following assessment is found: “The risk is justifiably low”. Susanne Gerlach, who is responsible for the prison system at the state of Berlin, sums up the result of this action with the sentence: “The assumed sufficient personal stability of the prisoner has not been confirmed”.
Perhaps she should think about whether the reverse is not true: Maybe Koray T. is completely stable and knows exactly what he wants, while the heads of the Berlin prison system have no real idea where things are going.
https://www.pi-news.net/2022/09/berliner-justiz-laesst-tuerkischen-moerder-laufen/