She entered the courtroom armed with a .22-caliber Beretta pistol and fired eight shots.

In a tragic turn of events, a mother, whose seven-year-old daughter was kídnαppєd and murdєrєd, took the law into her own hands by shooting the kíllєr during his trial.

On May 5, 1980, Anna Bachmeier was kídnαppєd in Sarstedt, a small town near Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, West Germany.

Her body was later found by the police after the fiancée of Klaus Grabowski, a local butcher, reported him to the authorities.

Grabowski, a 35-year-old convicted sex offender, had undergone chemical castration in 1976. However, it was later disclosed that he had received hormone treatments in an attempt to counteract the castration effects.

He kídnαppєd Anna, held her captive at his home for several hours, ѕєχυαℓℓу  αssαultєd her, and then strαnglєd her to ԃҽαƚԋ.

He alleged that the fear of returning to prison drove him to commit the murder.

 

 

The horrifying murder sent shockwaves through the community, and left Anna’s mother, Marianne, distraught and desperate for revenge.

The following video is a reconstruction of the courtroom shooting surfaced on YouTube in 2022.

On March 6, 1981, on the third day of Grabowski’s trial at around 10am, Marianne smuggled a Beretta 70 pistol into the courtroom of Lübeck District Court.

She then shot Klaus Grabowski, the confessed kíllєr of her daughter, in the back.

 

 

Bachmeier aimed the gun at Grabowski’s back and fired seven times, and he was kíllєd almost instantly.

She then lowered her gun, and was apprehended without resistance.

The media dubbed Bachmeier “Revenge Mother”, and the dramatic event sparked a nationwide debate in Germany as to the justifiability of her actions.
(Marianne Bachmeier via Getty)
While some sympathized with her quest for retribution, others questioned the legality and morality of her vigilantism.

 

 

In 1983, she was convicted of premeditated manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison, though she served only half of her term before being released.

On September 17, 1996, Bachmeier d at the age of 46 from pancreatic cancer in a hospital in Lübeck.

Her final resting place is next to her daughter, Anna, in Burgtor Cemetery, Lübeck.