"Hanau Perpetrator Tobias R. Asked Wuppertal Detective Agency for Help Back in 2019"

Report on Kurtz Detective Agency and Tobias R. in the Westdeutsche Zeitung

Tobias R. was not easily fobbed off. Time and again last year, the man is said to have called the Kurtz Detective Agency, which among other locations has an office in Wuppertal-Barmen, and asked the experts working there for advice: for the first time in June 2019, then on further occasions, and by October apparently with increasing urgency. Tobias R. evidently felt "persecuted from all sides and was particularly convinced that the world was governed by a secret organisation under American leadership, of which in Germany only Angela Merkel and the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution were aware," Patrick Kurtz told this editorial team on Friday. A native of Thuringia, he currently manages his detective agency with 30 branches, headquartered in Leipzig, from Wuppertal. Kurtz appears credible.

 

R. is said to have wanted to use the agency’s "very good contacts with authorities" to obtain contact with the Federal Intelligence Service and "various other state organisations." The request was declined. There was then a meeting with one of Kurtz’s investigators, to whom Tobias R. presented a self-authored manifesto. Allegedly precisely the same manifesto that, two days after the racist terrorist attack in Hanau in which eleven people lost their lives, occupied the nation.

 

In other words: Patrick Kurtz had contact with the perpetrator of Hanau and spoke with him personally by telephone. And one of his investigators, who does not wish to have his name published, met Tobias R. on 24 October of last year at Landhaus Dieckmanns in Dortmund. "He became curious because Tobias R. appeared absolutely eloquent and intelligent. He wanted to find out whether we might somehow be able to take action after all," the 30-year-old Kurtz recounted on Friday.

"We Have Such Problem Cases Almost Daily"

At the appointment in Dortmund, it quickly became clear that Tobias R., who appeared in a "grey suit, with short hair and refined speech," must have been suffering from persecutory delusions. "We have such problem cases almost daily, but of course one does not imagine that such a bloodshed will one day result from this," said Kurtz. At the time, the detective agency refrained from passing the "case" on to the police. "Especially as Mr R. showed no signs whatsoever of a willingness to use violence."

 

Tobias R. read parts of the manifesto to the investigator at the Dortmund country house. The openly racist content played less of a role in this context. "Our investigator recognised the manifesto on Thursday after it was published on the internet. We then reviewed our contacts and came across Tobias R.," Kurtz reported. The owner of the detective agency does not reproach himself for having let the matter rest after the meeting. "The police would not take us seriously if we were to report every crank." However, he has now independently passed on his knowledge about the perpetrator of Hanau to the police.

Correction

Patrick Kurtz never had personal contact with Tobias R. Various employees of Kurtz Investigations Wuppertal had telephone contact with the alleged Hanau perpetrator, and only the Dortmund detective Holger E. met him in person. During that meeting, Tobias R. made no statements of a violent, violence-glorifying or xenophobic nature.

Note

The original article by Olaf Kupfer appeared in the Westdeutsche Zeitung. The emphases (bold type) and hyperlinks on this page may differ from the original.

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