The Marianne Bachmeier Case: Vigilante Justice in the Courtroom
On March 6, 1981, a controversial episode in postwar German justice took place at the Lübeck Regional Court. Marianne Bachmeier, the mother of a six-year-old girl, illegally brought a handgun into the courtroom and fired seven shots at Klaus Grabowski, who was on trial for the murder of her daughter, …