Thackeray once said in his masterpiece Vanity Fair:
In the children's verbal hearts, the mother is God's name.
For an ordinary mother, the child is the whole of her life, and when the child is hurt, a mother explodes with enough power to defeat all the evils of this world.
On March 6, 1981, during a trial in a German court, a young mother suddenly roared and fired several shots at the accused man, and then stared at the man who was lying in a pool of blood, and after the man confirmed his death, she calmly accepted the control of the police in court. This bizarre act has sparked widespread controversy in German society, but beneath the mother's actions lies an even more lamentable truth.
The mother, Marien, runs a small and famous bar independently in the local area. Anna is Marion's youngest daughter. The mother and daughter are dependent on each other, but the work at the bar makes Marien unable to accompany her daughter often, little Anna often annoys her mother for why she can't spend more time with her, and the mother and daughter often quarrel.
On May 5, 1980, when she was only 7 years old, Anna had a fight with her mother because Marien urged her to get up quickly and clean up, and felt that her mother did not understand her little Anna and decided to run away from home.
Little Anna walked out of the house with her school bag on her back, and all this did not attract Marion's attention, perhaps in the past days, such quarrels have happened countless times. She complained only slightly about her daughter's disobedience and then went back to her bedroom to rest, after all, the bar business that had been running until the early hours of the morning had exhausted her physically and mentally.
In her eyes, the 7-year-old girl's running away from home is nothing more than going to school and complaining about her mother's not, and when she comes home at night and sees a table of delicious food, her anger will disappear.
In the evening of the same day, Marien prepared a table full of her daughter's favorite dishes according to the custom, and wanted to compensate her. In the old days, this was the best conciliator of their mother-daughter relationship. But this time, Marion waited left and right, but did not wait for the sound of her daughter coming home.
At first, Marion thought that little Anna was still gambling, hiding at school or at the homes of classmates and relatives and refusing to come back. However, when she called the teacher at Anna's school, the reply she got made her shudder - Anna did not go to school that day!
If she didn't go to school, where would she go? Lost? Lost? I remembered my daughter gambling in the morning and saying "I never want to see you again." At this time, Marion was completely panicked, and hurriedly dialed the phone of the local police station, saying that her daughter was missing, and asked the police to help her find her daughter.
After learning about the incident, the local police department first calmed Marion's emotions, after all, children ran away from home in the local area, they were nothing more than going to relatives, friends' homes or quietly hiding near home, as long as they checked all the relatives and friends and then searched in the park shops around Marion's house, they should be able to find Little Anna.
However, as the investigation progresses, the case does not seem to be as simple as the police thought. The police searched all of Marien and Anna's relatives and friends, even Marion's neighbors and distant relatives, and there was no trace of Little Anna. The search near Marion's house was also fruitless.
By this time, it was already midnight. A 7-year-old girl may have been hungry for a day without money, and although it was May, the temperature at midnight was also very low, and little Anna may be shivering in a corner of the city.
After a fruitless search, the police decided to mobilize the power of the community and call on the local people to look for little Anna. And in the vast search crowd, there is always a hoarse voice of a tearful mother, who is looking for her daughter who is dependent on her.
Marien's parents divorced when she was very young, and she has been living with her father and has not felt any family warmth. His father, who had been addicted to alcohol and gambling for many years, would always punch and kick Marion in order to vent his anger after getting drunk or losing money. In this family situation, Marien, who grew up, is not only pessimistic, rebellious, but also has a very hot personality. And what she wants most is to leave this home as soon as possible.
At the age of 16, Marion and her boyfriend had their first child (unmarried pregnancies are common abroad). By this time, she was already living independently. The young and vigorous Marion decided to keep the child. At the age of 18, Marion had a second child with her boyfriend, and the two children caused a huge disagreement between Marion and her boyfriend, who was in the adolescent period, and as a result, Marion insisted on giving birth to the child, and the two broke up shortly after. The two children were clearly beyond Marion's financial means, and the two children were eventually taken away by her boyfriend.
From possession to loss, Marien, who was alone, worked hard and by the age of 23, she already owned her own bar. And she also welcomed her third child, beautiful little Anna. Although, by this time, she had broken up with Anna's biological father, but this time Marien insisted on keeping Anna, and she was already capable of raising Anna alone, and she wanted to give Anna a home she had hoped for.
Anna grew up and gradually had her own ideas. Because Marien runs a bar business, she comes out early at night and returns early, and the time spent with Anna is actually very small, and the mother and daughter often quarrel over some small things. Marien understands her fiery temper, she does not want her daughter to become her original self, often after the quarrel to take the initiative to apologize to her daughter, she does not want to hurt her daughter, but also hopes that one day in the future her daughter can understand her pain.
But this time, Marien couldn't apologize to Little Anna for being late as usual.
After a night of searching, there was still no news of Little Anna, and the police also considered whether Little Anna would encounter "human traffickers".
Just when everyone was at a loss, Anna's body was found abandoned by a secluded river.
The police quickly rushed to the sighting site, and the scene in front of them directly stunned everyone. I saw that Anna's death was very tragic, her whole body was scarred, and her hands and feet were full of strangles, as if she had undergone a torture. According to the forensic identification, the cause of Anna's death was suffocation caused by neck strangulation, and during the forensic doctor's further autopsy, it was found that Little Anna had traces of being molested and violated. What kind of pervert could do such heinous behavior to a 7-year-old girl?
Marion nearly fainted at the sight of Anna's body, and she couldn't imagine her daughter, who had been bouncing around alive a day before, and now she had become a cold corpse. And at the moment of getting the autopsy report, Marion completely collapsed, desperate, sad, angry, all the pessimism in this world gushed out of Marien's heart in an instant, and this poor mother could no longer support it.
The police quickly reported the case, anna's disappearance turned into a perverted child abuse murder case, and sent a co-investigation notice to the whole town. The heinous behavior caused the townspeople to be outraged and reported useful information to the police, and soon clues about Anna followed.
On the morning of May 5, 1980, it was the day that Little Anna ran away from home, someone witnessed Little Anna wandering alone on the road with her school bag, a middle-aged man in her 30s approached her, and after giving Little Anna something, Little Anna followed the middle-aged man away.
Based on eyewitness testimony, the police quickly launched an investigation, and soon a man named Corus surfaced.
Collins, a 35-year-old male, was criminally detained by police before 1980 for multiple child molestations and abuses. In 1976, Colens was sentenced by a court to undergo chemical castration (inhibition of sex hormone production through drugs) for molesting a little girl.
And such a bad bastard, in 1977, was approved by the court for restorative treatment with chemical castration. It turned out that Collins' lawyer defended that Collins had a history of mental illness, and at the time of the crime, he was in the onset of his mental illness and could not control his behavior. This seemingly absurd reason unexpectedly obtained the judge's forgiveness for him, and he was sentenced to only a few months in prison and then went to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
Colens did not relent from being discharged from the psychiatric hospital, and the demon spent all day wandering in search of his next prey, but on this day on May 5, 1980, he met the 7-year-old Anna.
The police quickly arrested Him based on the past Case Ofer Corons, and in the face of police questioning, this asshole who was inferior to a pig and a dog calmly admitted his criminal facts.
On May 5, While wandering the streets, Colens stumbled upon a little Anna playing alone. After he first wandered around for a while, after confirming that there was no one around Anna, he gave Anna a candy and then invited her to play in his house, because there were a lot of cute kittens in his house.
Even now it seems like a childish lie, but it's deceptive enough for a 7-year-old girl, and According to Colens, even if Anna doesn't agree, she's ready to forcibly take Anna away.
When Anna enters The Corinthians house, that's when the nightmare begins. Colens tied Anna up with a twine and gagged her mouth, unleashing hours of abuse, indecency, and assault on Anna. During this time, although Anna cried for her mother, Corinth's approach to madness showed no signs of stopping.
And the most heinous behavior is that after Corinthus abused little Anna, he realized that little Anna had seen her true face, so letting her go of herself was inevitably another prison disaster, in order to prevent the police from arresting him again, he brutally killed little Anna and threw her body by the river, and he actually went to a high-end restaurant after dumping the body, as if enjoying the fruits of his victory.
Such a bad act made the police handling the case very angry, when the atrocities of Corinth were reported to Marien, the poor mother was almost mad, rushed straight to the detention room where Corons was located, her eyes were full of vengeful anger, fortunately, the police stopped in time, and after the silence, Marien crouched on the ground and covered her face and cried bitterly.
Although the real culprit was caught, the process of convicting Corinth was not smooth. Because of Corons' history of mental illness, his defense attorneys always insisted that Collins was in a psychotic period at the time of the crime and subjectively did not know what he was doing. Because at that time, psychiatric crimes, although they needed to be tried and treated, were not guilty in German law.
Such a ridiculous reason for exoneration was unacceptable to Marion, who was already in a trance, and the mother who was already in a trance roared in court and angrily denounced Corinth's despicable behavior, but because Corunders had a previous conviction, the judge of this trial did not directly sentence him, but wanted to conduct a second trial.
When the first-instance judge's gavel fell, Marion's heart was cold. She couldn't have imagined that such a lame reason would make the judge hesitate about the devil's sentencing.
As she walked out of the courtroom, Corinth whispered in Marion's ear that Anna had asked him for 5 cents, and if Corons didn't give her money, she would tell her mother about it. Collins is also preparing to tell the judges of the next trial about the matter.
It was obvious that this was the cause of the mental illness that Corus had fabricated for himself, but the hesitation of the judge at first instance had made Marion despair, and Marion was completely crazy when she heard this, and she wanted to fight with Corons despite the obstruction of the court police.
The 7-year-old girl was again charged with extortion by Corunders after Corus's atrocities. Marion could no longer send her daughter a late apology, and now she would never allow her daughter to be slandered by this beast again, and if the justice was not done, she would personally judge herself.
On 6 March 1981, the second hearing in anna's case was held. Marion followed the crowd to the trial bench with a gloomy face, and while everyone was in their seats waiting for the judge to drop the hammer to open the trial, Marion pulled a 9mm semi-automatic Reta pistol from behind and fired eight shots at Corinth in front of him before the bailiff came to stop him.
The shocking scene in the courtroom made everyone panic. After the gunshots, Corinth fell to the ground, and Marien did not run away, but was stiff, staring at Corons on the ground with a fierce glare.
The bailiff immediately took control of Marion and snatched the gun from her hand, and immediately saw Hows was lying in a pool of blood. As a result, 6 of the 8 shots fired by Marion hit Colens, who was found dead on the spot.
Upon learning of Corons' death, Marion breathed a sigh of relief and said to the bailiff next to her in a slightly playful tone, "This bastard, I really want to hit him in the face." ”’
Subsequently, Marion was arrested for intentional homicide. The court that was supposed to try Corinth now has to sentence Marien for his killings. As Anna's case raged throughout Germany, the news of Marien's killing of the culprit did not go away, and soon made headlines in Germany's major plates.
From a legal point of view, Marien's premeditated murder is obvious and will face at least decades in prison, but the huge pressure of public opinion also makes it difficult for judges to drop the hammer.
History is always strikingly similar, and when the judge hesitated to see if he was mentally ill at the time of the Corinth case, Marion now embarrassed the judge for the same reason.
Marion insisted that she had never been able to forgive Corinth, the demon, and that she often had the apparition of her daughter in front of her eyes, and she told herself that she could not let Go of Colens. At the second trial, she saw that Corunders was still trying to forcibly pull her daughter away, and was forced to shoot At Collins. And, as the bailiffs said at the time, she wanted to shoot him in the face because her daughter wanted her to do so.
As to whether Marien really premeditated murder, German academic circles debate endlessly, but the German people are more willing to believe that Marien is also shooting the "fact" of psychosis, first, Corunders's animal nature is unforgivable, can no longer let him escape the law for the same reason, and second, let Marien make up for the mistakes of being a mother, take revenge with his own hands, and comfort the spirit of little Anna in heaven.
In the end, Marion was sentenced to 6 years in prison, and after serving a year and a half of the sentence, she was released on parole.
In 1995, 45-year-old Marien admitted to a german talk show that she had premeditated to kill Colens, but she did not regret it. Because only in this way can this bastard who defiled his daughter get the punishment he deserves, and only in this way can she fulfill her last duty as a mother. Although the daughter is no longer there at this time, everything is worth it for her daughter's comeback. At this time, Marion was also diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
In 1996, at the age of 46, Marion died of illness, and she and his daughter were buried together in accordance with her last wishes.
Perhaps, rather than revenge, Marion would have liked to see her daughter at her may 5 apology party, even if she was still angry with herself. In the world, every mother loves her children deeply and does not want them to be hurt in any way, and this love transcends life and death, and is more ancient and modern.
We long for all the bad guys to get the punishment they deserve, but we should be even more eager for the chance that we don't meet the bad guys. When we were young, our parents protected us, and now that we are older, we should give back to our parents' love.
Always remember, there is nothing wrong, often go home to see. The tree wants to be quiet and the wind is not stopping, the son wants to raise and not to be kissed, and then the one who regrets it the most will be us.