Alemannia Aachen’s coach Heiner Backhaus denied, viewed a violence video and benevolently commented. In other places, however, his testimony in front of the jury in Aachen sprinkles concerns about the dealings of the third division soccer team with the hooligans accused due to attempted manslaughter.
Heiner Backhaus spent the 2nd Christmas Day 2023 with his in -laws, at least the evening. So he said this as a witness on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) before the district court in Aachen. The in -laws, according to the Alemannia coach, lived in the country. The network is often bad, and therefore it happens that by Whatsapp Entered videos would not be loaded and only a spongy preview image can be seen.
Backhaus: “Videos still not downloaded “
Even today, the videos said that the accused Kevin P. are not downloaded to Backhaus that Christmas Day. So he didn’t see her, Backhaus assured. One of the two videos with a spongy preview image shows most likely how P. brutally struck a man as a bouncer in the Aachen red light district. If he had seen it, said Backhaus, he would have reported it and stopped contact with P. immediately.
The trainer is relieved for a moment that the indictment stimulates, but directly in court Chat to open and show the preview images. They are spongy, the statement from Backhaus is therefore credible, but only temporarily, because chief prosecutor Jutta Breuer still wants this to have this technically examined.
So the doubts vibrate, not only in the indictment, but also in the jury who negotiates against Kevin P. for various offenses. The spread of violence videos and the associated exposure of the victims is one of the offenses that weighs more difficult to see the act to be seen in it, which is considered an attempted manslaughter by the public prosecutor, and other cases of dangerous bodily harm that P. is charged.
Excessive cocaine and alcohol consumption
Kevin P., 38 years old, admitted on the first day of the trial that he would earn a punishment and knew that he would spend years in prison. On Tuesday, the third day of the trial, Kevin P. first listened to his fiance, then the Alemannia coach.
The fiancé reported on the excessive cocaine and alcohol consumption of the accused, who has hardly changed since the beginning of her relationship in spring 2023 until retention in pre-trial detention in July 2024. The trainer reported that he didn’t notice anything from the addiction. He also did not know that Kevin P. had a criminal record, a confessing hooligan, one who was previously open right -wing extremist, but claimed to have changed his attitude.
Backhaus: “Didn’t know it Hoolig element gives”
Backhaus, who has been the Alemannia coach since September 2023 and led the club back into professional football after eleven years in the regional league, said about P.: “He is a very big and wider, but very soft person.” He got to know him during a joint action for a charitable club in which P. was committed, especially for homeless people. The club has before the appointment “Nothing said”who he would meet, it generally “Never a learning” given how “We should deal with certain things”.
The presiding judge had asked him beforehand whether he had not been briefed, such as with the well-known hooligans and the one by the WDR magazine “Sport inside“The uncovered proximity of the club is to be dealt with to right -wing extremists. “I didn’t know that there were organized hool league groups”said Backhaus, and certainly not that Kevin P. was a hooligan.
Christmas greetings to “Chemo”
The court held several news from the chat course between him and the accused. “Thank you very much, my ‘Chemo’, I’m happy to meet our meeting”it said, and: “Merry Christmas, my friend.” Kevin P. is known as “chemo” in the club and the fan scene. He, in turn, wrote to Backhaus several times how great the Alemannia coach was, and he thanked him for getting a video on the said Christmas in which the daughter of Backhaus “O Tannenbaum” sang.
The coach said that he has 2,500 contacts on WhatsApp and at Christmas rather indiscriminately sends messages to the last active chats, including videos with his daughter. On the news of P. on December 26, 2023 that he “Meanwhile, for disrespectful freer and thieves” Take care, while others celebrated with families, Backhaus replied “Really so !!!!”. But he only has “Respect” Showed for someone who takes care of.
He only became aware of the alleged content of the videos in January 2025 when he was sent to him as a stuff. At that time one had also went to Marcel Moberz. The head of the supervisory board of Alemannia is currently resting his office as chairman because it is now being investigated against him. It is about a possible spread at least of a violence video. Moberz therefore made use of his right to refuse to testify and was unloaded as a witness.
Alemannia’s Justice as a PS defender
Backhaus never wants to talk to Moberz in detail about the content of the video that P. deployed from a surveillance camera and over Whatsapp distributed. The first point of contact with the club was Osama Momen, the club’s judiciary, who also sits on the Alemannia supervisory board. On the one hand, he calmed him down because “Nothing happen” could because Backhaus didn’t watch the video. On the other hand, he also had the feeling “That Momen didn’t want to advise me”. Therefore, the trainer took an external lawyer.
Osama Momen, on the other hand, represents Kevin P. When the Alemannia coach complained about how the club had left him in the rain several times on Tuesday, but had already left the negotiation and the defense. The process continues on Thursday.