Overview

• Three Bavarian LKA officers are under investigation for allegedly misappropriating and selling confiscated weapons that should have been destroyed.
• The revolver used in a 2019 murder in Neuss, which was supposed to be melted down in 2018, is central to the investigation.
• The murder involved a former talent show contestant who killed his ex-girlfriend in a flower shop before attempting suicide.
• Initial investigations from 2019 to 2021 failed to identify how the weapon reached the murderer, prompting a case reopening in 2023.
• The implicated officers have been suspended, and the LKA's weapons disposal unit has been temporarily closed for restructuring.