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BGH Quashes Manslaughter Verdict in Rhine Dismemberment Case as Other Homicide Trials Advance

The decision compels a fresh review of murder qualifiers, including a possible racist motive.

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Zwei Jahre nach der Tötung eines tunesischen Geflüchteten in Baden-Württemberg spricht der BGH sein Urteil. Ihm stellt sich die Frage, ob das Landgericht Waldshut-Tiengen den Angeklagten zu Recht wegen Totschlags verurteilte - oder ob es Mord war.
Zwei Jahre nach der Tötung eines tunesischen Geflüchteten in Baden-Württemberg muss der Fall neu aufgerollt werden. Das Landgericht Waldshut-Tiengen muss erneut herausfinden, was genau passierte und ob es doch Mord war, wie der BGH entschied.
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Overview

  • The Federal Court of Justice overturned the Waldshut-Tiengen court’s 2024 Totschlag ruling and ordered a retrial, citing legal errors in assessing treachery at the moment of the lethal attack.
  • In the Rickenbach case, the defendant admitted shooting Mahdi Ben Nasr in December 2023 before dismembering the body and dumping parts in the Rhine; the prior sentence was six years and ten months.
  • The BGH instructed the lower court to reassess whether base motives apply after arguments that the defendant’s racist views may have driven the killing.
  • In Kassel, a December 2025 life sentence for a crossbow killing at a Bad Zwesten clinic faces Bundesgerichtshof review after the defense filed a revision, leaving the verdict nonfinal despite a finding of special severity of guilt.
  • In separate proceedings, trials continue in Wiesbaden—where a 51-year-old is accused of shooting his ex-partner’s husband after being let in by his ten-year-old son—and in Trier for a Hermeskeil parking-lot killing in which the 35-year-old defendant claims a memory blackout.