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In Germany, a teenager who shot dead a police officer after firing at him multiple times has been acquitted of murder and will avoid prison — after telling a court he was often in a “bad mood” due to a lack of prospects.
The Saarbrücken Regional Court ruled that the 19-year-old gunman, Ahmet Gürsel, bore diminished responsibility at the time of the killing of Police Chief Inspector Simon Bohr, 34, and instead convicted him only of aggravated robbery, ordering his placement in a secure psychiatric facility.
The shooting took place in August 2025 in Völklingen, Saarland, after the defendant carried out an armed robbery at a gas station, stealing around €600 before attempting to flee. During the police response, he attacked officers with a knife, seized a service weapon from a trainee, and opened fire. Bohr was struck multiple times and died at the scene.
Pathology reports showed the police officer and father was shot in the head, face, neck, shoulder, abdomen, and back, and eventually died from “internal and external hemorrhage.”
Although the teenager admitted to the shooting during the trial, the court accepted psychiatric evidence that he was suffering from a schizophrenic disorder and severe anxiety, which was used to suggest he had significantly impaired his ability to control his actions.
“Fear had taken over his thinking,” presiding judge Jennifer Klingelhöfer said in delivering the verdict, adding that the defendant believed his life was under immediate threat when he fired the shots.
As reported by Berliner Zeitung on Wednesday, medical experts told the court the teenager experienced hallucinations and delusions. He had been under neurological care since 2023 and was taking a combination of prescribed medications at the time of the killing, which he said he had been provided to him by a doctor while he was in Turkey.
During proceedings, the defendant described a background of bullying, self-doubt, and social withdrawal, telling the court, “I was often in a bad mood.” He also cited a fear of sirens and crowds and said he struggled with a lack of direction in life.
During the trial, Bild reported on the testimony of Dr. Roland Gib, a psychiatric expert, who gave evidence from his assessment of Ahmet G. in which he said the defendant had “wanted to prove that he is a man” by robbing the gas station, but was soon “overcome with great fear of being shot by the police, like in the USA.” So, instead, he shot at the police officers seeking to arrest him.
Prosecutors had insisted that the killing amounted to murder driven by extreme violence and sought a 13-year sentence under juvenile law, but the court rejected their argument in light of the psychiatric evidence.
The victim’s widow, Selina Bohr, attended the trial as a co-plaintiff and sat opposite the man who killed her husband. She later left her seat before the psychiatric report was presented, but remained in the public gallery.
Under the ruling, the teenager will not serve a prison sentence but will instead be detained in a high-security psychiatric institution.
After today’s verdict, Rainer Wendt, federal chairman of the German Police Union (DPolG), released a statement criticising the decision to acquit on the murder charge.
“I am speechless at such a verdict, and my thoughts are with the bereaved family of our colleague. They will feel abandoned by the justice system, and I can well understand that. To commit the robbery while fully conscious, and then to ruthlessly shoot his way out and kill someone, and then suddenly claim mental illness – that, in turn, is incomprehensible,” he said.
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