I traveled the world and seven seas. Everybody is looking for something.
The 2nd murderer
I met the 2nd murderer, let’s call him Mike, when I was researching for my second movie and doing auditions with criminals for a role in my film. The fictional part was for a man who had served a long sentence for a murder that he claimed to be innocent of. During the auditions I met the 1st murderer who had killed a man in a fight and served a long sentence. Eventually I chose a criminal for the role who spent more than 8 years in prison. Not for murder but just for theft. His story is another beast that I might tell here later.
I wanted to understand more about life in prison and got the connection to Mike through the director of one of my country’s largest prisons. We agreed that I could spend a day with Mike. He lived in a high security area of the prison for long-term inmates who would most likely never be released again. Mike was in his sixties, more than two meters tall, probably way over 100kg and had long black hair. An impressive and scary figure. He reminded me of the «Indian» in «One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest» Yet he was soft spoken and had something of a boyish insecurity. The part of the prison seemed like a modern youth hostel. The inmates - all men - had their own rooms. There was a kitchen, a common area and an outdoor area surrounded by concrete walls. The men were free to move in their part of the prison but couldn’t go anywhere else.
Mike had grown up in an upper middle class family in a suburb of Zurich. He told me that already as a kid he liked to blow things up. As a teenager he did more serious stuff with explosives. During that time in the seventies there was some terrorism in Switzerland mostly by left wing groups connected or inspired by the RAF, which seems wild from today’s perspective. Mike’s passion for bombing and destruction got him connected to these circles. He started to conduct terrorist bombings as a contractor. He said he did it for fun and never for political reasons and he took money for it. He claimed that he tried to make sure nobody got hurt in his bombings but when I insisted it seemed that he was not careful enough and people did indeed get injured. Soon he got caught as still a young man and went to prison. He served his time and towards the end of his sentence he was struggling with a prison director, who according to Mike, was bullying him.
At a certain point close to his release date Mike had an argument with the prison director. He didn’t tell me the specifics but it sounded like the director was threatening a punishment for Mike and Mike said: «If you do that, I will kill you.» The prison director didn’t listen to Mike’s threat and followed through with the punishment.
Soon after that mike was released on probation. He bought a shotgun and managed to enter the prison again with the weapon, got to the office of the prison director and shot him and a prison guard who happened to be in the same room. Wildly Mike managed to escape. He fled to Austria where he was caught in a train station.
Mike was sentenced for life, which normally means 25 years in Switzerland, but he refused to do any therapy or get psychological evaluations that would have been a requirement for him for being released on probation. So he will most likely die in prison. When I asked him why he did the killings he said: «I told him I would kill him and I did. I am consequent. I stick to my word.» He seemed to be slightly sad for killing the prison guard who just was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
For a moment I felt sorry for Mike who has just stupidly wasted the life of two people and his own for nothing. And the encounter made me question my belief that people become criminals because of circumstances. I still believe that this is mostly true and nobody is born a criminal but I am not sure if it’s the case for Mike. Maybe in older times he would have been the leader of an Army, killing hundreds with his sword in brutal battles and thriving but in our World there is just no place for people like him besides prison.
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