Murderer awarded €3k after police threatened violence

A GERMAN court awarded a man convicted of murdering an 11-year-old boy €3,000 in damages because a police officer had threatened violence during an interrogation.

The Frankfurt state court ruled 36-year-old Magnus Gaefgen deserved the damages because his human rights had been violated by the deputy police chief’s threat during questioning about the missing boy. But the court rejected Gaefgen’s claim he had suffered trauma as a result and should receive €10,000 in compensation.

“Based on the evidence, it is much more likely that this (trauma) is to be attributed to the experience of killing the victim,” Judge Arne Hasse wrote in his ruling.