Euskirchen court shooting

Euskirchen court shooting
Erwin Mikolajczyk
Location	Euskirchen, Germany
Date	March 9, 1994 12:58 p.m. (CET)
Attack type	Mass murder, suicide bombing
Weapons	.45-caliber Colt pistol Homemade bomb
Deaths	7 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	8
Perpetrator	Erwin Mikolajczyk

The Euskirchen court shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred at the district court in Euskirchen, Germany on March 9, 1994. Just after his appeal against a sentence for assaulting his former girlfriend, Vera Lamesic, had ended with an upholding of his conviction, 39-year-old Erwin Mikolajczyk re-entered the court building armed with .45-caliber Colt pistol and a homemade bomb in a backpack. In the hallway he fatally shot Lamesic, two women who had accompanied her, as well as two other people, and then entered the court room where he killed 33-year-old Alexander Schäfer, the judge who had convicted him. When he ran out of ammunition, Mikolajczyk killed himself by detonating the bomb. A total of eight people were also wounded in the attack.

Victims

• Peter Kurth
• Vera Lamesic, 56
• Agnes Müller
• Peter Preuß
• Marianne Rübsam
• Alexander Schäfer, 33

In popular culture

The film Tag der Abrechnung – Der Amokläufer von Euskirchen, released the same year and starring Christoph Waltz as Erwin Mikolajczyk, is based on the incident.

External links

• Tödlicher Aufschub, Focus (11/1994)
• Schlimmes passiert, Der Spiegel (11/1994)
• Bei dem Anschlag sterben sieben Menschen, General-Anzeiger (March 8, 2004)
• Amoklauf im Amtsgericht, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (March 8, 2009)
• Germany - Courtroom shootout, Associated Press (March 10, 1994) (Video)