【EN PRO 12/07】認識德國的“復仇母親” ，在審判中開槍打死了殺害她孩子的兇手

On March 6, 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a crowded courthouse in what was then known as West Germany. Her target was a 35-year-old sex offender on trial for her daughter’s murder, and he died after taking six of her bullets.

Immediately, Bachmeier became an infamous figure. Her subsequent trial, which was followed closely by the German public, begged the question: was her effort to avenge her slain child justified?

Before she was christened as Germany’s “Revenge Mother,” Marianne Bachmeier was a struggling single mom who ran a pub and in the 1970s Lübeck, a city in what was then West Germany. She lived with her third child, Anna. Her two older children had been given up for adoption.

According to NDR, the seven-year-old Anna had skipped school after an argument with her mother that fateful day and somehow found herself in the hands of her 35-year-old neighbor, a local butcher named Klaus Grabowski who already had a criminal record involving child molestation.

Grabowski was arrested that same evening after his fiancé alerted the police. Grabowski confessed to the murder but denied that he abused the child. Instead, Grabowski gave a strange and disturbing story.

The killer claimed that he strangled the little girl after she tried to blackmail him.

Marianne Bachmeier was incensed by this story and a year later, when Grabowski headed to trial for the murder, she had her revenge.

The court ultimately convicted Bachmeier of premeditated manslaughter and sentenced her to six years behind bars in 1983.

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▌重點句型複習

1.open fire    開火

2.behind bars    被關押 ; 坐牢

▌補充例句用法

1. The enemy opened fire.
   敵人開火了。

2. The murderer is now safely behind bars.
   殺人犯現在已被關押, 不能為害了。

▌精選單字複習

▌補充例句的用法

1. Harry wanted revenge for his father’s murder.
   Harry要為遇害的父親復仇。

2. Nate was brought to trial on charges of arson.
   Nate以縱火罪被送法院審理。

3. A bullet had lodged in the boy’s leg.
   一顆子彈嵌進了男孩的腿裡。

4. The infamous traitor was sentenced to death.
   那個罪大惡極的叛徒被判處死刑。

5. The problem will be discussed at length in subsequent chapters.
   這個問題將在後面幾章詳細討論。

6. I don’t have to justify myself to anyone.
   我不必向任何人解釋。

7. She’s alerted me for weekend duty.
   她已通知我週末值班。

8. Ben has confessed to the murder.
   他供認了謀殺罪行。

9. Supposing he tried to blackmail you?
   要是他想要敲詐你呢？

10. Ultimately they did get the police to come.
    他們最終叫來了警察。

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