Recreational hunter kills ex-girlfriend at Frankfurt Airport
Four months after the tragic incident in a parking garage at Frankfurt Airport, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office is certain: a 47-year-old man shot and killed his former partner (50) in the early hours of March 31 and subsequently took his own life. Before his death, the gunman also shot his hunting dog.
Perpetrator was a recreational hunter from Hamm
According to the Westfälischer Anzeiger, the perpetrator was a recreational hunter from Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia.
The murdered ex-partner, a flight attendant from the Sauerland region, had arrived in Frankfurt on the night of the murder and was apparently awaited by her ex-partner in the parking garage.
Murder weapon legally acquired
The body of the 50-year-old woman was discovered on March 31 at around 3 a.m. by a witness. The police searched the parking garage and discovered the body of the 47-year-old man from Hamm. In the trunk of his parked car, officers also found the slain hunting dog.
The 47-year-old recreational hunter had legally acquired the firearm. The public prosecutor's office stated that he had borrowed the revolver “upon presentation of the required documents” from a firearms dealer.
Investigation concluded
On Tuesday, the public prosecutor's office confirmed that the investigation had now been completed and closed. The 47-year-old man was the sole perpetrator. The IG Wild beim Wild systematically documents crime in connection with recreational hunting.
Further articles
More recent hunting accidents and documented criminal offences involving recreational hunters can be found here: Chronicle of hunting accidents and criminal offences at Abschaffung der Jagd as well as in the Chronicle of hunting accidents in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at PETA.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
