Ewa P.’s voice trembles, sometimes it breaks off, tears run down her face. “I am 40 years old, have three children and one grandson. I can’t say how much I regret that,” she said at the beginning of the trial in Room 127 of the Hanover Regional Court. The co-defendant Marco S., 40, looks at the table and kneads a handkerchief with which he wipes his eyes from time to time. The prosecutor has just read out the indictment, according to which the two accused met in Barsinghausen on February 25, 2022 should have delivered a car race.