A German-born Turkish man responsible for a fatal speeding accident in Heilbronn may be deported.
The 23-year-old had been convicted of murder and illegal street racing resulting in death.
His appeal was rejected on Tuesday by the Stuttgart Administrative Court, effectively showing that in the view of the court even people born and raised in Germany may be deported in certain circumstances.
In February 2023, the plaintiff, caused a collision with a family car carrying four people while speeding in downtown Heilbronn.
The father died, and the mother and two children suffered serious injuries.
For the incident, the perpetrator was sentenced to nine years in juvenile detention.
Then in October 2025, the Stuttgart Regional Council ordered his deportation. The man had lived in Germany continuously since birth.
But the court aimed to deport him to Turkey, and ban him from entering Germany, or the EU, for eight years.
Arguing that his life was firmly rooted in Germany, and that he would therefore face difficulty in adapting to life in Turkey, the man appealed his deportation. But the court in Stuttgart dismissed this argument on Tuesday.
The Stuttgart Administrative Court ruled that the public interest in this deportation outweighs the plaintiff’s personal interests.
Although the plaintiff has since shown remorse, behaved cooperatively while in prison, and has also completed a vocational training program, the court suggests that the public interest in his deportation prevails.
The man has already attracted attention on multiple occasions due to serious traffic violations.
According to a report by Tagesschau, the man, who was 20 years old at the time of the crime, had been tried and sentences as an adolescent by the Heilbronn Regional Court. Had he then been tried under adult criminal law, he would have face life in prison.
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