February 23, 1997:It is a completely normal routine check that police officers Stefan G. and Stefan K. carry out on this Sunday morning at the A 24 parking lot in Roseburg (district of the Duchy of Lauenburg). You noticed the crooked and holed license plate of a gray Mazda. The driver, Kay D., immediately pulls out his pump gun and shoots at the officers.
Stefan G. dies at the crime scene
The colleagues of the two hear everything over the police radio. With 15 police cars they follow Kay D. to Lauenburg. At the end of the town, officials manage to overpower him. In the meantime, police officer Stefan G. has died in the Roseburg car park. His colleague survives the attack with serious injuries.
Kay D. didn't shoot for the first time
Kay D., it quickly becomes clear, belongs to the hard core of the right-wing extremist scene. In Berlin he was trained to fight against the German state with weapons - and also to kill. When the neo-Nazi was checked in the Roseburg car park, he was on the run because four days earlier he had shot at Klaus B. from Berlin, who was a PDS member.
"A feeling that paralyzed you"
During a torchlight march, hundreds of colleagues, family and friends in Lübeck mourn the death of Stefan G. "A large crowd of police officers from all over Schleswig-Holstein walked through the city in silence. It was a feeling that cannot be described, that paralyzed you ", remembers Detlef Hardt from the Lübeck police.
"He didn't care about the grief of the bereaved"
Before the Lübeck district court, the accused Kay D. shows no remorse. "I got the certainty from watching for a long time that he was filled with hatred. He didn't care about the grief of the bereaved. In court he expressed himself that it was all an anti-state apparatus that he didn't accept. In his face was just hate," Hardt recalls. Kay D. admits the act and sees himself as a martyr who acted in self-defense against the state. He is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and attempted murder with the addition of "particularly serious guilt".
In the meantime he has served it. Kay D. has been free again since last year. According to his own statements, he has turned away from the right-wing scene.