Walter storm (* 4 August 1942 in gold oh; "† 13 September 1999 in woman field) was into the 1970er to 1990er years as an escapee king one of most well-known Swiss.

The occupation-criminal ensured between 1974 and 1995 not only with eight successful outbreaks from penintentiaries and prisons for large attention, but also with its schelmischen actions, which provided with parts of the population popularity for it as a kind of modern Robin Hood. Country-wide amusing prevailed about, as if storm at Easter 1981 of the penal establishment rain village broke out and a note with the words "are eggs search gone" left.

East Swiss sonson son had culpable become for the first time at the age of 20 years because of the sales of stolen cars. Later he committed break-downs, bind-moderate robbery, thefts and a bank assault. It sat in penal establishments in Switzerland, in Italy, France and on the Kanaren island Gomera in.

A majority of the left-alternative scene and the inhabitant of zurich youth movement of 1980 admired storm for its fight against the solitary confinement, to which 1987 culminated in a hunger strike, and saw in it a Gentleman gangster, who accomplished its repeated armed robberies allegedly force-free. At the outbreak of 1981 probably aids from the youth movement had crucial portion. Storms considerably by the punishing defense Barbara Hug, a former "Stiftin" was defended in the Kanzlei of the later Upper House of Parliament Moritz Leuenberger.

1998 storm conditionally to dismiss. After a taking of hostages failed he was arrested a half year later again. It had the sympathies, which he enjoyed to anhin in certain circles, playful, when it together-did with the force criminal Hugo haven man. In addition, otherwise it had long exceeded the high point of its popularity: While it into the 1980er years innumerable demonstrations and Manifestationen for storm gave, then more hardly took someone note of it into the 1990er year. 1999 it took itself in an isolation cell the life.

Quotation

"At the latest with the legendary east he coup on 13 April 1981 (...) it became a kind Popstar. To one, which provoked the repressive State of strength of its criminal intelligence. In Zurich the youth movement revolted - one as storm fit perfectly into the subversive spirit of the time." (Pc. Galler day sheet, 14 February 2005)

Literature

• Kohler, Reto: Storm: the face of the escapee king. 2004

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