Euskirchen court shooting
Euskirchen court shooting | |
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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.[1]
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.[2]
References
- ^ Brother warned police about courtroom killer, Toledo Blade (March 11, 1994)
- ^ Der „Amokläufer von Euskirchen“ Archived 2012-09-04 at archive.today, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (March 9, 2010)
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)
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