Starnberg - terrible end of years of legal dispute over a real estate heir. A couple from Starnberg, which regarded his legacy evaluated as false, but about the appropriate processes, took a notary as a hostage. The retired lawyer (83) underwent 14 hours of death anxiety in the basement of his victims.
Sunday morning after services were Klaus (66) and Adrienne W. (59) the notary, whom she probably knew a fugitive from a sports club, approached and asked to look at a few legal documents. The notary followed the unsuspecting couple in his Mercedes to his house in Starnberg.
What exactly happened there is unclear. One thing is, according to Heinz Rindlbacher by police Bavaria: "The lawyer was threatened with a pistol, from but did not know that it" is only "a blank gun. And he was in the basement chained to a bed. "With an iron chain on his arm where he had 14 hours to wait for his release.
Background: For many years the couple had from Starnberg always busy courts because of the dispute over the valuation of a property in Green Forest. According to information provided by "AZ" trend were so high litigation costs that now the forced sale of the house was valued at Starnberg. Subsequently, the couple apparently went crazy.
As copied from television thrillers: "The victim was allowed to make a phone call," says Rindlbacher. "He should call his daughter to obtain such a reversal of the judgments of the pair in question." Anyway, not a good idea - but certainly not on a Sunday, "the police spokesman.
The daughter of the notary at least alerted the police. In long negotiations, the kidnappers threatened to time, it will "happen", he allegedly called for a flat one million euros.
When everyone talks brought no burst, at 0.30 clock at night, a special task force for the Starnberger Villa, seized the hostage taker. Klaus W. thereby suffered minor injuries. Rindlbacher: "And the notary's it going to improve. He has not yet been heard. "
