A police seal hangs on the door handle of room 121, at the end of the corridor in a refugee shelter. The two men who shared accommodation here are dead: Volodimyr K. and Viaceslav B. were stabbed on Saturday in a green area near the Tengelmann-Center shopping center on the outskirts of Murnau.
The two men, aged 23 and 36, were Ukrainian servicemen who had received medical care at the Murnau trauma hospital in Upper Bavaria. The two were acquaintances in the former building that housed the Hotel Ludwig, sharing the same fate: both had an amputated arm.
It is possible, writes the cited source, that it was their handicaps that made them unable to defend themselves against the Russian’s attack, or perhaps the alcohol they had consumed together before the attack. It is known that they knew each other and also argued before the murders, but it is not clear whether the discussions were about Putin’s war in Ukraine, politics or something else.
It is true that the two crimes have become an explosive topic, a Russian attacks and kills two Ukrainians, that is why German officials treat the case with maximum involvement, which was taken over by the Prosecutor’s Office in Munich, through the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism , which deals with cases of politically motivated crime. Although there is no concrete evidence yet, a political motivation cannot be ruled out, say sources in the investigation.
Two days after the bloody crime, more and more details about what happened are becoming known. And these do not yet lead to the image of a Russian attacker who wanted to kill Ukrainians with sophistication and political calculation.
On Saturday, around 5:20 p.m., a woman made an emergency call to the police. Two men lie bleeding outside a shopping mall, she said. When the police arrived, one was already dead, the other died a short time later. in hospital.
Drops of blood that flowed on the asphalt from the crime scene lead to the apartment of the alleged perpetrator. The man lived on the first floor of a house on a quiet residential street. There is still a white and blue clothes horse on the wooden balcony and the conifer hedge has been carefully trimmed.
Neighbors report that there have been repeated incidents with the man. Sometimes they fight, sometimes they listen to loud music, sometimes they throw beer bottles. Residents describe the man as “aggressive”, although there have been no serious incidents of violence. People also say that the Russian had problems with alcohol.
The 57-year-old was apparently very drunk on the night of the murders and the initial police report speaks of someone who could not control himself. His nonchalant demeanor and the trail of blood that led officers straight to his apartment indicate that he probably didn’t fully understand the extent of the crime. When he was arrested, he said he and the two Ukrainians “had an argument.”
Investigators confirm a “previous relationship” between the perpetrator and the victims, which may have consisted only of drinking together, in recent months. All three were also seen together in Murnau, on the day of the crime. It is unlikely that they knew each other before the Ukrainians arrived in Germany for rehabilitation.
According to the neighbors, the Russian had been living in the house for several years. The Garmisch-Partenkirchen district office said the man was registered for the first time when he entered Germany in 1991. The two Ukrainians had only been there for a few months, coming to Germany in August and December last year respectively. Their medical treatment had been completed at the time of the murder.
It is not unusual for Ukrainian war veterans to be treated in Germany. Almost 1,000 Ukrainians have been received here since the beginning of the war, about 150 of them in Bavaria. The Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief distributes the injured from Ukraine throughout the Federal Republic.
The day after the crime, an arrest warrant was issued against the alleged perpetrator, the charge being “insidious”. A crime is described as insidious when a perpetrator consciously exploits the naivety and defenselessness of his victim.
Also on Sunday, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry published a report on the Murnau incident: in it, it confirmed that the two victims were Ukrainian soldiers who were in Germany for medical rehabilitation. Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba appealed to his colleagues at the Consulate General in Munich to closely monitor the case.
A small memorial has been set up at the scene of the crime, near the shopping centre. In particular, Ukrainians in the region placed flowers, flags and photos of the two people killed there. “Ukrainians in the district weep deeply … and condemn the murder,” reads one sign. A crying Ukrainian national flag is painted next to it.
“Shit Russians,” said another sign, which a police officer eventually removed because authorities feared the conflict between Russians and Ukrainians would escalate in Germany.
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