Tatort Facts Check: Is there an ID required – and what is base-jumper? – STAR

D IE Dortmunder “Tatort” episode “Weightless” played in a clique of base-jumpers. To access information, the commissioners determined Kossik and Dalay in the circle of friends, without giving identify themselves as police officers. Allowed to do that? And as the perpetrator, a nine year-old boy was found: He manipulated the parachute of his father, so that the non-opened. To protect him from prosecution, disposed of Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann) at the end that has used the boy the scissors. But that would have been necessary at all? We answer the most important questions to Sunday thriller.

What punishment threatens a nine year-old who has to answer for his father’s death?

As one is criminally responsible until 14 years the little Mats had nothing to fear in this case. That Faber has the weapon disappear, would not have been necessary. Perhaps one could in such a case, but respects the mother, unless a breach of duty of supervision is present, says Richard Thiess, until 2014 deputy head of the Commissariat murder in Munich. In such a case, it is also common that the investigating authority informed the Youth Welfare Office, which may prescribe a psychotherapeutic treatment for the criminal act has become adolescents.

Is there an ID required for investigators?

In Dortmund “Tatort”, the investigator Daniel Kossik and Nora Dalay hear in the circle of the base-jumpers to give without thereby recognized as policemen. Then they get reprimanded by her boss Martina Bönisch with reference to police identity card required. The While there are indeed, but in the concrete case, the investigators have behaved correctly. A police officer does not have to enter to detect automatically when he researched. It is quite possible to turn listening into a group of people without having to expel directly as a police officer, provided that just as there is no concrete suspicion against a person in the group. Once against a person a concrete suspicion exists and is carried out an investigation for action against them, as a search, a guarantee, an interrogation, you have to be recognizable as a policeman and inform the person as accused of their rights, says Richard Thiess.

What is Base Jumping?

This is a special type of skydiving, in which the take-off does not take place from the air, but standing of fixed objects , Base stands for B: building (building) A: antenna (radio mast) S: span (bridge) and E: earth (earth, rocks, cliffs). Unlike the traditional parachuting base jumper often bears no reserve parachute because it did not open on time due to the low step height. This may be one of the reasons why BASE jumping much more dangerous than skydiving. Since 1981 251 people have been killed.

Is that even legal?

In Germany the object jumping is allowed if the owner of Absprungort landing area their written give consent. The equipment must also meet the German registration requirements. In addition, the rules of the Association of German Property Springer applies.