User:Doenermeister/Norman Volker Franz

Norman Volker Franz (* 30. Januar y 1970 in Neheim-Hüsten, North Rhine-Westphalia) is german felon, who is wanted with international imprisonment decision.

Life
After secondary scool, an apprenticeship as an electrician and time in the Bundeswehr Franz wanted to catch up in Dortmund his high school diploma. "An unobtrusive student," a teacher later said about him. Norman Franz finished school half a year before graduation.

Crime series
Norman Franz belonged to a gang of criminals who attacked banks, smuggled cigarettes, traded weapons, and maintained contacts with pimps. When gang boss Christian König was blackmailed by three rival Polish cigarette smugglers, he hired Norman Franz and three other men to kill the Poles. In May 1995, König lured the three blackmailers on a deserted street near the Dortmund district Syburg. Franz stopped the car of the Poles and asked them to turn down the window, because he had to discuss something briefly. Then he threw a hand grenade into the vehicle. One of the inmates died instantly, another attempted to escape badly wounded, but was caught by Franz and his accomplices and shot several times in the head. The third man escaped, although they were following him in a car, from whose windows they shot him with a pump gun and wounded them to death. This car was Norman Franz 'BMW.

After this crime, Franz tried to flee with his girlfriend Sandra over the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain to Portugal, but was arrested at a toll in France and transferred to Germany. The Dortmunder jury sentenced him in March 1996 for two murders to life imprisonment and transferred him to the Prison Hagen. In May 1996, he married his girlfriend in prison. On March 11, 1997, he sawed through the window grill of his cell, climbed onto the roof with a ladder of bucket handles and broomsticks, and slid down the gutter. He jumped into a red polo, where his wife had been waiting for him, and fled.

On March 26, 1997 Franz shot the security guard Rudolf Tamm, who brought a cash box with 10,000 marks to the safe of Dresdner Bank in Weimar. Franz grabbed the cash box and fled on foot with his wife, who had stood guard in front of the bank. On July 21, 1997, Franz shot, right behind the Metromarkt in Peißen near Halle (Saale), the two guards Gerd Koch and Peter Seidel, who just wanted to stow the weekend income in the amount of half a million dollars in armored cars.

Arrest
On October 24, 1998, Franz and his wife were arrested in a Portuguese apartment in Albufeira by German target investigators. Portuguese policemen in the Algarve had become aware of a BMW with a German license plate, which suspected often parked in front of a bank. The police checked the license plate and found out that the car had been purchased under a code name that the wanted murderer Norman Volker Franz had used more often. The two made no resistance and came into Portuguese custody.

Renewed flight
After Franz had filed an unsuccessful complaint against his extradition to the German authorities before the Portuguese Constitutional Court, he succeeded on 28 July 1999 escape from the central prison of Lisbon. He had cut through the window grill and roped off with sheets. Since his escape, the authorities have been looking in vain for the perpetrator. His wife, who was sentenced to a six-year and three-months juvenile fine in Portuguese custody by the Halle court in Halle, has since divorced him.

For the arrest of Norman Volker Franz, there are currently rewards totaling around € 100,000 from several institutions and authorities. According to the BKA, it is suspected that Franz is staying abroad because a person saw him during his stays abroad. The work of the police concentrate on such hints. As part of the Infra-Red campaign, Interpol has been seeking out vulnerable criminals worldwide, including Norman Volker Franz, since June 2010 with the help of witnesses visiting various Internet platforms.

In a TV documentary of the ZDF in August 2007, various police officers speculated that he could still be in Portugal or that he had contacts in Morocco and possibly was there. Investigators assume that Franz is staying in areas largely avoided by Germans and has broken off contact with all acquaintances and family members from earlier. Public prosecutor Klaus Wiechmann from Halle told Bild.de in the summer of 2009 that he was sure that Franz would be taken if he was still alive. Target investigators would still search for him. According to the same report, the BKA had no indications that Franz had committed further serious crimes since his escape in 1999. The public prosecutor's office in Dortmund said that the LKA NRW carried out covert investigations and still follow up on clues that affect Franz. After this, in the ZDF program Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst on February 28, 2018 a voice sample of a telephone conversation was record and then broadcast.

Weblinks

 * Characteristics of Norman Volker Franz at bka.de
 * Germany's most wanted criminals at stern.de