Rocker convicted of murder after prison exit on the run

The Berlin police are looking for a convicted rocker who did not return to prison after an exit. According to a report by the "Tagesspiegel" it is a Hells Angel who was convicted of murder in 2019 for fatal shots at the Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg. A spokesman for the Senate Department of Justice confirmed on Tuesday that a 28-year-old prisoner had not returned to Tegel Prison from an unaccompanied exit last Saturday. The police were then alerted. This initiated the immediate search, said a spokeswoman.

According to the justice spokesman, the offender has to serve an eight-year prison sentence. Mid-2026 is noted as the end of the sentence. However, only three years of the sentence were open because the man was initially in custody, writes the "Tagesspiegel". After a “detailed examination”, it was recently decided to relax the man. At first he had an escort. By fleeing, he has now gambled away the privileges. If the man with German nationality is caught, according to the judiciary, he will not be able to enjoy the relaxation again for the time being.

The judiciary spokesman pointed out that the number of people who violated the relaxation of detention was relatively small. In 2018 there were a total of 200,080 easing measures, with violations occurring in only 81 cases. The numbers were comparable in previous years.

The legal policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group in the House of Representatives, Holger Krestel, asked Justice Senator Lena Kreck (left) to disclose the criteria according to which "such a far-reaching relaxation of detention" was granted.

According to information from the "Tagesspiegel", the fugitive rocker is said to have left prison unaccompanied for the first time on August 26 in order to be able to attend his child's school enrollment. Investigators now fear that the 28-year-old could go abroad, the paper writes. The Hells Angel fled to Turkey after the crime in 2016.