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Interview with Federal Constitutional Court Vice President, Justice, Professor Winfried Hassemer – “The State is No Longer the Leviathan”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Reinhard Müller

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German Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 5: Security, Democracy and the Future of Freedom: Assessing the Impact of War on Terror on Civil Liberties in Contemporary Democracies , 01 May 2004 , pp. 603 - 607
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Copyright © 2004 by German Law Journal GbR 

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1 Referring to a notorious incident in 2002, in which the Frankfurt Chief of Police was accused of having used improper methods – potentially amounting to torture – on the main (and only) suspect of the abduction of Jacob von Metzler, son of the owner of a well-known Frankfurt private bank, in order to extract a confession on the whereabouts of the boy. The latter was subsequently found murdered, and the suspect, Magnus Gäfgen, was tried by the Frankfurt District Court and sentenced to life-imprisonment later that year; it was during the trial that his defense team alleged improper conduct by the Police-Chief, triggering a criminal investigation, as well as widespread discussion of the issue.Google Scholar

2 Seat of the Federal Constitutional Court (the Editors).Google Scholar