The police quickly inspected the scene, which was a two-story restaurant. The police saw the person who had been shot down in the stairwell and two people near the restaurant table.

In February 2007, the German police received a call about a murder case at the "Nianyu Restaurant" and immediately organized police forces to rush to the scene to investigate the case.

The police quickly checked the scene, which was a 2-story restaurant. The police saw the person who was shot down in the stairwell and two people next to the restaurant table.

But it was not over yet. When they came to a room, they saw another person lying on the ground, and then they saw three people lying on the ground near the bar.

The police were surprised and angry about the tragedy at the scene. After forensic identification, most of these people were shot to death by the murderers standing nearby. In order to control them, many people's hands and feet were even tied with cables.

When checking their physical conditions, the police found that most of them had lost their breathing, but only one person still had vital signs. The police quickly arranged for medical staff to provide emergency rescue to him.

On the other side, another police officer delivered good news, saying that the 2-year-old girl Diana, one of the three people who fell near the bar, was in good health.

She was protected by her mother at the time of the crime. Perhaps the murderer retained a trace of humanity at the time, or perhaps her mother begged to protect Diana and she was not injured.

But her whole body was stained with blood, and her expression was very sluggish and frightened. It was obvious that the accident at the scene had a profound impact on her.

With the comfort of the medical staff, Diana gradually calmed down from the fear and trembling, but her face was still pale.

Less than a week ago, she had just celebrated her second birthday in the presence and congratulations of the town residents. On this day, she lost her father and no longer had her mother.

She was only two years old and didn't understand anything. The police frowned, pursed their lips, and looked at the little girl worriedly.

At the same time, the police cannot imagine what kind of person would attack the people in this restaurant? What happened? And how will Diana live in the future?

Post-case inspection

In the early morning of February 14, 2007, more than 80 police officers and some members of the German Federal Bureau of Investigation quickly entered a Chinese restaurant called "Nianyu Restaurant" in the small town of Sietensen in the Rothenburg region of Saxony, Germany.

Not long ago, they received an alarm call from a relative of an employee of the restaurant. It was still dark at this time, and the police on duty were not so focused.

This small town of only 10,000 people has never had any bad incidents in these years. This early morning call to the police scared him.

Some of the words above made him stand up even more. It turned out that the police officer said that a very bad murder had occurred in the "Nian Yu Restaurant" restaurant. When

came in, there was blood everywhere and no living person could be seen. He begged them to come over quickly.

When the police led the officers to Nianyu Restaurant, they saw a white man standing at the door pacing back and forth.

When the police showed up at the door of the restaurant, he seemed to have found a sense of security, and he couldn't help crying out of his originally controlled emotions.

He led the police to the inside of the restaurant and walked to a shot woman lying on the ground. He said that this was his lover and one of the employees of the restaurant.

Due to the working hours of the restaurant, most of the time after get off work is in the early morning. He will drive over to pick up his wife when she gets off work.

But when he came over today, there was no trace of light in the bustling and brightly lit restaurant, but the door was not locked.

He opened the door and came in and found that there was no movement in the restaurant. Just as he was wondering and turning on the light on the wall, he was shocked by the tragic situation in front of him.

The faces lying on the ground were all familiar to him. These were employees working in the restaurant, and their bodies were covered in blood spattered by gunshots.

Listening to these words, the police officers at the scene felt uncomfortable. The town was not large, and the villagers in the town knew each other more or less. Some of the people lying on the ground were even people they knew.

"Nianyu Restaurant" is also very famous in the local area. There are only more than 20 Asian people in the town, so there are very few Chinese restaurants. However, the food in this restaurant is very delicious, so the residents of the town are happy to patronize it.

As a hotel owner, Hong Fan was born in Hong Kong and later became a British citizen because of immigrating to the UK. After that, in 1997, Hong Feng came to live in Schittersen, Germany and opened a restaurant here.

Once he came to the restaurant run by Anne's mother for dinner, where he met Anne. Although the two were 8 years apart, it did not affect the fact that they had many common topics and the two had a great conversation.

It was this encounter that led to the two people falling in love with each other, and not long after, these two people, who were also kind-hearted and got along well with others, decided to get married.

With the blessings of relatives and friends, they held a wedding. After their marriage, they ran the restaurant together and lived as a family on the second floor of the restaurant.

Year Yu Restaurant left a very good impression on the town residents. In the eyes of the mayor, "This is a great restaurant", and the police also spoke highly of it as "a clean sheet without stains at all."

What confused the police later was that when they asked the residents near the home, they said that on the night of the crime, there were no unusual sounds coming from the Nianyu Restaurant.

This time they didn't hear gunfire or employees cries for help as they were being victimized.

Fog

After cordoning off the scene, the police tried to find clues and entry points. Unfortunately, the victim who still had vital signs after the case was too seriously injured and could not save his life.

Because the severity of this case is so serious, it has had a great impact on the lives of local town residents.

They dare not go out alone and rarely enter any restaurants. The catering industry has changed its business hours and opened during the summer vacation. People stay at home for fear of being murdered one day.

As long as the murderer is not found, the panic in the hearts of the town residents cannot be ended. The case has also aroused discussions and exchanges among major media and so-called experts.

In the process of exploring the case, many people agreed with the rumor of a gangland murder.

First of all, it was because there was a gangster group triad near the town, which had committed many intentional injuries in Hamburg, not far from the town.

They will use forceful means to illegally collect valuable fees from some Chinese-run shops. Once they fail to cooperate with them, personal safety will be threatened.

once revealed that the person in charge of a local restaurant lost one of his hands because he was unwilling to pay a six-figure fee.

media also counted more than 150 restaurants. It is very common for the underworld to collect protection fees in various restaurants. More than 120 restaurants have had the experience of paying protection fees.

They also said that this murder case was because the gangsters used ordinary fish food they brought and sold it to the store to make money in order to extort protection fees from Nianyu Restaurant.

There is a fish tank in the restaurant, so they suspect that Nianyu Restaurant is also one of the restaurants where gangsters ask for protection money, and he was retaliated because he was unwilling to pay the protection money. As soon as rumors like

came out, they were quickly opposed by many overseas Chinese. They were very distressed that the business of the Chinese catering industry had declined a lot due to the exaggeration of marketing accounts.

Experts in solving crimes are also very skeptical about this statement. They even doubt that there is any local underworld group.

Secondly, they also believe that if they collect protection fees, they will not harm all people.

After all, they mainly want to get eggs that represent profits, but if the hen that lays the eggs is harmed, it is impossible to receive any more eggs.

The turning point of the case

After the forensic doctor examined all the corpses, things always became clearer.

After identifying the victims, it turned out that the chef was the most seriously shot. He not only had wounds on his abdomen, but also on his back, which indicated that he was probably shot to death while being chased by the murderer.

The police speculated that the reason for this massacre was because they wanted to eliminate witnesses after the crime.

According to feedback from the scene, a laptop and mobile phone were also lost in the store, as well as about 5,000 euros in cash.

According to the traces left at the scene, the police roughly knew the direction in which the murderer finally fled, and dispatched personnel to block and inspect nearby traffic routes.

Sure enough, after a 14-hour investigation, the police seized a suspiciously old second-hand car on a road in the town.

The two people sitting in the car looked very nervous. When the police called to stop them, they did not dare to look directly into the police's eyes, and their bodies were trembling slightly.

After the police took control of them, they checked inside the car and finally found a picture showing the interior layout of the Nianyu Hotel, which alerted the police.

The police dispatched personnel to conduct an interrogation and investigation on the two Vietnamese car owners. Their DNA was compared with the DNA data left at the scene. The data was also very consistent. They were likely to be participants in the case.

After another in-depth investigation, it was discovered that this was a gang crime. In addition to the two arrested people, three other people were also involved in the crime.

Two of them are related by blood, they are brothers, and the other three are also Vietnamese.

The police searched the residences of the five people and found cables similar to those at the crime scene. They also seized a small firearm equipped with a silencer that they had abandoned on the outskirts of Bremen.

Case trial

In March 2008, the court formally heard the murder and theft case.

During this trial, all five people did not admit the facts of their crimes. It was not until the second trial in June that the police and the court figured out the whole story.

Four of them knew each other originally. On the night of the crime, the four came to an entertainment venue in Bremen to meet, where they met the 42-year-old suspect A.

But he had no way out, because one of the four people was carrying a firearm. He was afraid that his life would be in danger if he did not cooperate, so he put on the gloves they handed him.

The car carried cables, but none of the five people disguised their faces.

As for the restaurant drawings seized by the police, that was because one of the four people originally worked at Nianyu Restaurant.

As a Vietnamese refugee who came to Germany to make a living, it was difficult for him to find a suitable job. When he was desperate, he met Hong Fan, the owner of Nian Yu Restaurant.

Seeing his plight, Hong Fan sympathized very much, and after asking for his wishes, he left him to work in a restaurant to earn a living.

But he did not settle down here. After working for a while, he left here without informing Hong Fan. When he left, he wrote down the structure of the hotel.

However, the workers who left here lost their source of livelihood again. After hanging around for a while, he had to think about his next life.

He contacted the friends who were staying with him and planned to grab some money or valuable items from Last Year Yu Restaurant together.

The encounter with A was purely accidental, and one more person was needed to help complete the task of taking the money out of the hotel.

When they arrived at the hotel, they took out their guns and fired shots, intimidating the employees on site.

In order to allow the proprietress Anne to cooperate with them in withdrawing cash, they controlled Diana as a hostage and ordered Anne to lead them to find money.

originally thought he had grabbed the money and went downstairs to leave, but unexpectedly, Hong Fan had already untied the cable rope and appeared on the second floor.

Hong Fan didn’t believe that these unmasked kidnappers would let him go. He was worried about the safety of his wife and daughter. Maybe he could still get a glimmer of hope if he fought hard.

This move also made the kidnappers excited. After a dispute between the two parties, the kidnappers shot Hong Fan with a gun.

The four people who then went downstairs killed the four employees who were tied up in the lobby one by one.

Just at this time, the chef heard the noise and came in, witnessed all this, and recognized the kidnapper who had worked here.

To be on the safe side, the kidnapper pointed his gun at the chef again. Before the chef could turn around and take a few steps, he fell in a pool of blood.

At this time, the only remaining people in the restaurant were Anne and her daughter. Anne hid Diana in the carpet and begged them to spare Diana's life.

Diana is just a child. She will not leak secrets. She has obtained the money and killed so many people, but she is also afraid that if she continues to entangle the kidnapper, the activities here will be discovered by the outside world.

Therefore, the criminals did not kill the young Diana, but they did not leave Anne alive and left here with all the belongings.

Although the shots were fired just to scare the people at the scene at first, in the end they killed people and silenced them for the robbery. This situation was too bad.

In 2009, two people who were the masterminds of the murder were convicted of murder and major robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment .

The worker who drew the restaurant structure to the gang also paid the price for his ungrateful incitement to robbery. Together with the other accomplices, he will spend 4 to 14 years in prison respectively.

Poor Diana also saw her grandmother who came after hearing the news. In the arms of her grandmother, she finally got the peace of mind from her family.

After the case was closed, her grandmother also took Diana away from the place they once regarded as their hometown. Her whereabouts are unknown. The pain of losing her parents at a young age may take her a lifetime to heal.

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Editor | Zhang Ah Zhang, Shushu

Text | Xiong Changlin