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Magnus Gäfgen

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Magnus Gäfgen (born April 11, 1975 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German child murderer. In 2002, he was arrested for the murder of 11 year old Jakob von Metzler, the son a famous Frankfurt banker. The following year, Gäfgen was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Gäfgen has a modest family background, but went on to study law at the Goethe University in 1996. On September 27, 2002, he kidnapped Jakob von Metzler in order to blackmail his parents, but killed him in his apartment. Gäfgen then demanded one million euro in ransom from the Metzler family. He was observed by the police when he picked up the ransom. After a few hours, during which he had booked a holiday and not released his victim, who was already dead, he was arrested. After being threatened with torture, as ordered by Frankfurt Police Vice President Wolfgang Daschner, he confessed and told where the body was hidden.

Now consider the following letter to the editor (SZ, 28 March 2011):

Von Reue keine Spur
Kindermörder Magnus Gäfgen strapaziert das Rechtsempfinden.

Nicht Schuldgefühle oder Reue plagen MG („Wenn der Täter Opfer sein will“, 19./20. März). Nein, Alpträume, Angstphobien und Schlaflosigkeit, ausgelöst durch Schmerzen durch Vernehmungsbeamte. Er darf sich irgendwann Jurist nennen, ein Rechts-„Empfinden“ wie Normalbürger es besitzen, braucht es dazu offensichtlich nicht. Herrn Daschner von der Polizei gehören Anerkennung, Dank und Bewunderung, denn er hat unter dem vollen Bewusstsein, sich außerhalb geltenden Rechts zu bewegen gehandelt, während Gäfgen diese Einsicht bis heute nicht in den Sinn zu kommen scheint. Von Reue keine Spur. Nein, er kann mittels Prozesskostenbeihilfe auf Steuergelder zurückgreifen, um sich „sein Recht“ zu verschaffen. Ich wünsche den Angehörigen von Jakob von Metzler alle erdenkliche Kraft, dies auszuhalten und M.G. alle erdenklichen Alpträume.

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