Trial in Bavaria: Death smuggler has seven people on his conscience

Traunstein (Bavaria) – Smuggler Samer Al O. (25) fled from a civilian police patrol on the A94 on October 13, 2023 at breakneck speed. On board his black Mercedes Vito with Vienna license plates: 22 completely unsecured refugees from Turkey and Syria.

At the Ampfing exit, the driver couldn’t make the curve, the van overturned, seven passengers were thrown out and killed. The trial against the death smuggler from the highway began on Tuesday!

“He definitely didn’t want anyone to get hurt,” said his defense attorney Hans-Jörg Schwarzer. The police video of the chase, however, shows a completely different picture. The Syrian who most recently delivered packages for Amazon in Vienna raced without taking any losses into account!

Schleuser raced at 180 km/h

The protocol: At 3:15 a.m. the federal police patrol started tracking the suspicious vehicle at kilometer 69. “We are directly behind the smuggling vehicle, stay behind it, speed 180 km/h,” the passenger says over the radio.

3.18 a.m.: “Vehicle leaves Mühldorf-West, gets back onto the motorway, accelerates again to 150 km/h.” The operations center announces: “We are blocking it because at 180 km/h that is required.” 3.20 Clock: “Vehicle is leaving, accident, accident!” shouts the driver of the patrol car.

Officers shouted, “Who knows first aid?”

The situation at the exit: chaotic! Judge Volker Ziegler quoted from the police reports: “A screaming woman was sitting in the grass verge, a mutilated child was discovered from the helicopter, the resuscitation of a person who was gasping for breath was in vain.” Officers shouted: “Who knows first aid?”

Only one sat almost listlessly on the side of the highway and typed a text message: “I had an accident, I’m being arrested,” wrote Samer Al O. to an accomplice in Austria. The imprint of the belt finally convicted him as the driver…

During the trial it became known: only 15 minutes before the horror crash The Mercedes Vito on the B20 between Burghausen and Marktl had already been targeted by a patrol that was on its way to a burglary. “He was overtaken with flashing lights, and there was no suspicious reaction from the driver,” the driver recorded. Shortly afterwards the radio message came through the pursuit on the highway.

Cashed over 12,000 euros for three smuggling cases

According to the investigation, Samer had Al O. before Refugees have already been brought from Traiskirchen to the greater Munich area three times and received 12,200 euros as a smuggler’s wage.

After the horror accident, a surviving child (11) remains mute and paralyzed in the intensive care unit with irreparable brain damage.

Verdict on November 5th.