A confidential informer for the Bavarian police has made serious charges in his statements against five members of a Turkish-Kurdish drug ring in Hof. However, now the capable informer had better not testify in court. The Ministry of the Interior is namely afraid for his life.
The Frankenpost writes:
In the criminal trial against five presumed members of a Turkish-Kurdish drug ring who camouflaged their drug deals as döner meat (we reported), the life of the police informer is now in play. If it goes according to wishes of the defense from Hof and Plauen, then the informer must appear before the District Court as a witness. If he should somehow be exposed — in spite of all security measures — then his life could end up in serious danger, for drug scene doesn’t hold back on their treatment of traitors.
Therefore, Bavaria’s Interior Ministry gave the notification that the confidential informer would in no way be made available, and that his identity would also not be divulged. If this should happen, then massive measures of revenge would be taken against the informer.” The court will now formulate a rebuttal with help from the defense. After all, the informer was the only witness in some of the defendant’s criminal activities .
Shot to the chest barely survived
How dangerous it is for a confidential informer is underlined by the fact that the brother of Namik C. (name changed) who was charged in Hof is now wanted. He allegedly shot a pistol around during a quarrel in Plauen. As a result, a party guest who wasn’t involved was critically injured. The 28-year-old man could be saved only by an emergency operation.
According to statements by the Southwest Saxony Police Directorate, C’s older brother had quarreled with other men and a woman at a birthday party in 2008. The 31-year-old Turk then pulled out a pistol and pulled the trigger twice. One bullet crashed into the ceiling, and the other entered the chest of a party guest. The gunman, now wanted for attempted murder, has been a fugitive since then.
This considerable readiness for violence in complex drug rings, among which the agents count Namik C. as well as his brother-in-hiding, is a further indication that the informer’s life would be in concrete danger if he would testify in Hof. The details of the presumed perpetrators’ surroundings now established by the trial also explain the massive security precautions taken at the Justice Building in Hof.
According to the report that the presiding judge, Georg Hornig, read before the court yesterday, the main defendant Ibrahim B., 49-year-old owner of a snack bar in Hof, has already very clearly warned potential “business partners” that people already have been shot because of drug deals gone bad.
It is most possible that the “confidential informer” comes from the same cultural group as the perpetrator. Wait and see just how many informers there will still be in the future, if the rule of law can’t guarantee their protection…
(Translation of German PI-article by Anders Denken)
























