Heinsberg --
The Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) is only on 13 In January for a possible subsequent preventive detention for several convicted sex offenders from Heinsberg decide. This was announced by the 1 Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court in Karlsruhe on Thursday after the revision procedure.
The prosecution had applied for the post-Munich II preventive detention for the now 59-year-old man, the district court Munich II had rejected the request, however. The Supreme Court is now considering the revision of the Public Prosecutor against the decision.
The case was nationwide in recent months caused a stir. Following the rejection of the subsequent preventive detention, the district administrator of the district Heinsberg, had publicly warned about the convicted sex offenders. For weeks, every night people had demonstrated in front of the house of the former forklift driver. They fear that the man might be re-offend.
According to the verdict he had raped in the 80s and 90s in the vicinity of Munich, a total of three students and sometimes tortured. For this he had spent approximately 20 years in prison. In March, he had been released and has since lived in Heinsberg.
A subsequent preventive detention had rejected the district court Munich II with a reference to the current legal position. Accordingly, a subsequent order of preventive detention is only possible if they occur after the expiration of a prison sentence new evidence to suggest a danger of the offender. The meet in this case, however, did not.
