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BIG MÄCK GANGSTERS AND GOLD
SPARKASSE FINANCIAL GROUP
ROBBERY 1
NUREMBERG 19 DECEMBER 1991
AUDIO BASED ON COURT DOCUMENTS
MANFRED NEDER CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER
CASE NUMBER XY UNSOLVED
At the end of today's program, we'd once again like to show you photos
which were taken by automatic cameras during bank robberies.
In December 1991,
this man robbed a Sparkasse branch in Nuremberg city center.
CRIMINAL POLICE NUREMBERG (0911) 21 11
Description, 35 to 40 years old,
very tall, at least 1.95 meters, and strikingly obese.
The man robbed a bank...
Right, I'll look and see what we can make out.
DR. CORNELIUS S. EXPERT WITNESS IN THE DONALD STELLWAG CASE
The expert is being evasive today.
The expert did not want to comment. But his colleague was willing to speak.
PROF. FRIEDRICH RÖSING FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST
COURT HOUSE
25 JANUARY 1994 START OF TRIAL
HARALD BAUMER CRIME REPORTER
FINGERPRINTS CANNOT BE MATCHED
CASHIER'S OFFICE WITH VIEW OF TILLS
AUDIO BASED ON COURT DOCUMENTS
WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY
99% PROBABILITY
A TALL, FAT PERSON
RECEIPT NO. 94027
B91 HOTEL LEUNA-MERSEBURG
DRAWING FROM ORIGINAL REPORT
ANTERIOR CRUS OF ANTIHELIX
COMPLETELY IDENTICAL
VERDICT
MAIN TRIAL 16 FEBRUARY 1994
THE DEFENDANT
DUE TO CORPULENCE AND LEFT EAR
"GUILTY"
SEVEN YEARS LATER
FEBRUARY 14, 2001 DAY OF RELEASE
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE, 2001
INVESTIGATION, UNKNOWN
TAXI N-DU 337 MIDDLE FINGER
A new witness put investigators on the right track.
A man with a similar stocky build to Donald Stellwag
had carried out a series of bank robberies following the same pattern,
such as arriving and fleeing by taxi.
A comparison with fingerprints secured at the crime scene
led officers to a 38-year-old man who was already in prison.
It can now be clearly attributed to him.
IDENTITY ESTABLISHED
EVIDENCE OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE?
JUSTICE AT THE SECOND ATTEMPT
43-YEAR-OLD IN PRISON FOR A BANK\ ROBBERY HE MAY NOT HAVE COMMITTED
Donald Stellwag had to atone
for a bank robbery in Nuremberg he never committed.
Now Donald Stellwag is fighting for a retrial of his case.
But for that to happen,
the real perpetrator must first be convicted.
The real perpetrator's undoing was his own cockiness.
He had boasted to an accomplice
that in 1991 he had robbed a Sparkasse branch in Nuremberg Südstadt.
He had fled undetected and would probably have never been caught
if he hadn't been ratted out by his accomplice.
The defendant, who was heavily shielded in court,
made a full confession today
and apologized repeatedly to his innocent doppelgänger.
VERDICT
ERROR CONFIRMED
I knew I had
neither committed a crime nor done anything wrong.
I am innocent.
Innocent in prison.
Donald Stellwag...
An unfathomable miscarriage of justice...
- Miscarriage of justice... - Donald Stellwag...
Victim of a miscarriage of justice...
It feels good to sit there and to realize
that the battle you fought back then wasn't in vain,
but that it was justified.
I don't think I'll ever be free.
I spent far, far too long in prison for that.
I think it will take me a very, very long time.
There are a lot of things I have to deal with
before I can block it out.
And I don't want to block it out, I just want to work through it.
ANGELA GRAAS FILMMAKER
6 DECEMBER 2001 DAY OF ACQUITTAL
THE DEFENDANT SHALL BE COMPENSATED FOR THE PRISON SENTENCE SUFFERED
THE VERDICT IS REVERSED
AND THE DEFENDANT IS ACQUITTED.
HIS INNOCENCE HAS BEEN PROVEN.
I thought when I was acquitted,
which happened on December 6th,
the state would help me ease back into normal life.
But it did nothing of the sort.
The state just says, "The man gets his 20 deutsch marks per day."
2186 DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT
24,046.00 EUR
STRAUBING PRISON
I faced a huge task in prison.
namely, first of all, to fight my illness.
Don't forget that I have two brain tumors.
And then I got extremely fat
due to strong cortisone treatments and other things.
I thought I wouldn't survive prison.
PEOPLE OF THE WEEK
Hello, everyone. Hello, good evening.
He spent eight years,
I repeat, eight years,
in prison in Germany as an innocent man.
It sounds too unrealistic. You think such a thing can't happen.
Total nightmare.
How blind is our justice system?
This tragedy happened in the Federal Republic of Germany,
a constitutional state.
Gross miscarriage of justice?
Donald Stellwag was an innocent man in prison.
For Donald Stellwag, that was the harsh reality.
His life, and he himself, changed in prison.
Welcome, Donald Stellwag.
- The case of Donald Stellwag. - Donald Stellwag.
Hello, Mr. Stellwag.
We accept that you are innocent
and we want to welcome you back into society.
Donald Stellwag, welcome.
Now, if you...
If he really didn't do it...
How did they apologize to you?
They never did.
That's not quite correct.
You know that the judge in Ansbach, who presided over the retrial, apologized.
And the public prosecutor. She had nothing to do with the trial.
If you are innocent, you have to pay for your incarceration.
Excuse me?
And 14 days after my release,
I was released in 2001,
the real perpetrator robbed a bank again, in this case, a Postbank in Nuremberg.
He was just unlucky. Technology was more advanced now.
A steel grid came down from the ceiling and they caught him in the act.
Just his bad luck, I'm afraid.
FRANK VOGEL BUSINESS PARTNER
ALMOST 5 YEARS IN PRISON AS AN INNOCENT MAN
INNOCENT IN PRISON FOR YEARS EXTREME CASES
"LEGAL HISTORY WRITTEN THE PAINFUL WAY"
VICTIM OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE FIGHTS ON
With the acquittal,
are you now, so to speak, a free man
in that the matter is settled for you, or is there something to work through?
Yes, I still have a civil case going against the expert witness.
I always thought I was free, but I'm not free. I'm still trapped.
I don't feel psychologically free.
I don't feel mentally free.
FALK SIMANG FRIEND
Donald Stellwag hopes the man who caused his conviction
with an inaccurate expert report will be forced to pay damages.
The higher court in Frankfurt agrees,
and forces expert witness Cornelius S. to pay damages.
Cornelius S. has to pay 150,000 euros in damages
for the suffering caused to Donald Stellwag.
I didn't think it was possible.
And this is not about money at all. The money is completely irrelevant.
It's the first case in Germany
in which an expert witness is held civilly liable
for an inaccurate court report.
- Mr. Stellwag's first life. - Exactly.
Now let's have a look at Mr. Stellwag's second life.
ROBBERY 2
15 DECEMBER 2009 A81 NEAR LUDWIGSBURG
AUDIO RECORDING BASED ON COURT DOCUMENTS
DONALD HOME DONALD CELL
Such spectacular robberies don't happen often, the police say.
1.8 million euros in gold and jewelry.
Two hundred pounds of scrap gold from a Nuremberg jeweler
on its way to be melted down in Pforzheim.
The goods were not insured.
TIM HÖHN JOURNALIST
A major raid in Brüser Berg.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in the Cologne-Bonn area.
He is said to be one of the masterminds of the robbery.
But four other men are still at large, including rapper Xatar.
A gangster rapper as a real gangster?
He likes to pose as a criminal, uncompromising ghetto star.
Xatar literally means "danger" in Kurdish, Arabic and so on.
Internet videos were probably Xatar's most important platform.
He spent years building his image as a brutal gangster.
At a party, he breaks a model's nose
and has to pay $50,000 bail.
Gangster music and gangster life
were increasingly merging into one.
Some might have thought him capable of dodgy deals,
but a million-dollar heist?
Xatar and his accomplices make a spectacular escape.
First, they fled to Moscow via Abu Dhabi.
They are arrested in Iraq in February 2010.
Xatar now has the opportunity to face up to Germany's laws,
as he has been caught and this week has been on trial in Stuttgart.
Be quiet! I'm talking to him, not to you.
JUDGE BARBARA SALESCH
DEFENSE LAWYER MALTE HÖCH SUMMATION
So for once, I agree with you.
Because there is another name.
VICTIM OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE BACK IN THE DOCK
DID HE PLAN THE BIG GOLD HEIST IN LUDWIGSBURG?
WAS STELLWAG THE MASTERMIND BEHIND A GOLD HEIST?
A unique victim of a miscarriage of justice.
The freedom Donald Stellwag talks about is worth 10,000 deutsch marks.
That's the sum for which he sold his story to a commercial TV station
and now gives interviews only to them.
-Donald Stellwag. - Donald Stellwag.
Donald Stellwag.
Donald Stellwag, welcome.
NINE YEARS IN PRISON AS AN INNOCENT MAN
Welcome, Donald Stellwag.
WOLFSHÖHER BEER
These are the new designs. The black looks great.
GOLD OASIS WE'RE BUYING!
COMPETENT, REPUTABLE, FAST, RECOMMENDED
SIM CARDS SAVED UNDER "DONALD CELL"
COMMUNICATED WITH STELLWAG UNDER THESE NUMBERS
DONALD HOME DONALD CELL
DECEMBER 8, 2009 ONE WEEK BEFORE THE GOLD HEIST
PRISON SENTENCE
8 YEARS
It's a real, if you like, a real gangster story, so to speak.
Look, Rus, I'm a motherfucker, you know?
I'll do anything, man.
If you want to make it to the very top, there is no shortcut.
Or maybe there is. But if you take it, you'll pay a huge price.
How much gold are we talking?
- Where is the gold? - Nobody knows.
And now, at the age of 34, he's even written an autobiography.
It's the story of a criminal hero.
Here it is. Xatar, All or Nothing.
And what can I say about the book? Stories will be told.
What gave you the idea to write a book?
"ALL OR NOTHING" (2015) EXTRACT FROM XATAR'S BOOK
"FUCHSTADT,OUR VILLAGE" AMATEUR DOCUMENTARY 1971-1973
WELCOME
RUDOLF THORWARTH NEIGHBOR FROM FUCHSSTADT
DONALD STELLWAG'S GRANDMOTHER
DONALD STELLWAG WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER
AND TWO UNCLES
DONALD STELLWAG'S MOTHER
JOHANN MEYER SCHOOLMATE
THEFT - TWO CASES OF FRAUD - EXTORTION
FRAUD - FRAUD - DRUG DEALING
12 FRAUD OFFENSES
EMBEZZLEMENT
Borders come down for the beautiful world of Western goods.
Drücker are what we call aggressive magazine salesmen
that go from door to door and make money by exploiting people's gullibility.
My name is Guloff.
Their methods aren't always the most subtle.
They plead some sob story to evoke pity.
And using this pity, they collect signatures
on long-running magazine subscriptions.
In December 1991,
this man robbed a Sparkasse branch in Nuremberg...
THE NÜRNBERGER NACHRICHTEN NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
HEAD OF THE DRÜCKER GANG
BANK ROBBERY TRIAL
ACCUSATION OF EMBEZZLEMENT
GUESTHOUSE OWNER
230,000.00 DEUTSCH MARKS
THE DEFENDANT'S CONSIDERABLE PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS HAVE TO CARRY WEIGHT
IMPRESSION OF LACK OF CREDIBILITY OF THE ALIBI WITNESSES
THE STATEMENTS SOMETIMES CONTRADICT EACH OTHER INEXPLICABLY
FALK SIMANG FELLOW INMATE
You are isolated from everyone, from all prisoners.
Because you didn't confess?
Because you won't confess. You say, "I didn't do it. Do what you want to me."
So that's what they did.
Good evening.
In the studio with us is Falk Simang.
He is a trained roofer and bricklayer from Dresden.
He did his military service in the East German army.
He's been a mercenary for a year.
Up until Friday, he was fighting house-to-house in Mostar.
It's not just Serbs, Croats and Muslims fighting each other.
There are also foreign mercenaries fighting on all fronts.
Germans too.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
They said I had to be put in isolation
because I had to be separated from other inmates.
That means you couldn't talk to anyone for six years during your incarceration?
No, I couldn't.
When you think of prison, you picture
all those old movies with rows and rows of guys behind bars.
But it wasn't like that for wise guys.
It really wasn't that bad, except that I missed Jimmy.
He was doing his time in Atlanta.
Believe me.
If DeVito doesn't do anything soon,
things will come to a standstill.
Innocent behind bars...
Now he uses his newly found freedom
to pray in a chapel near his home in Nuremberg.
EXTRACT FROM XATAR'S BOOK
ANTIQUE & JEWELRY MARKETS
FACTS
DONALD STELLWAG SUGGESTED AMBUSHING A GOLD TRANSPORTER
UNFIT FOR PRISON
DRIVE CAREFULLY! IT COULD BE YOUR CHILD TOO
I still have a bit of gold, and it has to go.
ORDER NOW!!!
STARTING TODAY THERE IS A NEW INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY! #NOJOKE
You now have the opportunity to get real gold from Xatar
with the limited Xatar coin.
You better act fast.
During all that time,
has anyone revealed what happened to the loot in the end?
No. Because none of us know.
But the gold is hidden somewhere and you know where?
That's what you're saying.
If you had gold, where would you bury it?
Come on, you would bury it. I would bury it.
After ten years, I'm still getting asked, "Bro, where is your gold?"