Detektiv Lutz Metz

Dresden

Appearance: Lutz Metz is a tall man, in his middle thirties, with dark hair and eyes. He prefers dark colored suits, charcoal is ideal. Unfortunately, an investigator's salary doesn't allow Lutz to dress as he would like. He carries two Glock pistols, one in a shoulder holster and the other in an ankle holster. He also carries an unsanctioned switchblade in his coat pocket. He wears no jewelry, for he doesn't believe in giving the criminal element any idea of his life outside of work, or so he tells his fellow police, but he is also hiding his Jewish background.

Behavior: Lutz is methodical and street smart. He has been an investigator for the Dresden police for ten years now and has developed a significant number of legal and not-so-legal skills. He never discusses himself and is something of an enigma to his fellow officers. He is something of a lone wolf and doesn't work well with partners, but his superiors have taken to assigning rookies to him, so they can learn the ropes from someone who knows what he is doing.

History: Lutz Metz is a partial fiction, while that is who he is now, it was not always so. Lutz was actually born in a Romanian Jew. His family fled the country as soon as they could afford to do so and when Romania joined the EU in 2008 they were among the first to leave. They eventually settled in Dresden, the irony of Jews fleeing to Germany hasn't escaped Lutz. Unfortunately, Lutz grew up in one of Dresden's few ghettos, more of a modern tenement hell than the ghettos of old, but Lutz learned a lot of hard lessons on the streets before a local policeman set him strait. Lutz family was large and extended, they faced poverty and a quiet but fierce bigotry from the moment of their arrival. When the widower policeman offered to take Lutz in hand, they were grateful and no one was more surprised when the policeman offered to adopt Lutz to give him the legitimacy he would need for any kind of future in Dresden. While Lutz was uncertain, his family accept the idea with a surprising amount of enthusiasm. It would be years before Lutz would fully understand their desperation and the sheer number of mouths they had to feed. In retrospect, it was a very practical decision and Lutz can now fully appreciate it; unfortunately, that decision had unforeseen consequences in how distant Lutz is now from his people.

Recent Events: A very few high ranking members of the Dresden police know his history and that is why he was assigned the suicide / murder case of the Jewish Rabbi; his superiors has pointed out that his past makes him ideal for this investigation as the Israelis would want one of their own to investigate the death of a Jewish holy-man on German soil. The case is however, anything but a common suicide or murder and Lutz has begun to realize that something beyond the normal prejudices are at work in the old man's death. However, the list of potential suspects is staggering and so Lutz has begun the arduous process of interviewing all the passengers. The investigation is taking its toll, as Lutz must work eighteen hour shifts to interview enough of the passengers per day to make the investigation move as quickly as his superiors would like. A recent interview with a pair of Brazilian businessmen has left him with suspicions about one of them - a man named Hugo. So Lutz has assigned his trainee to run their passports through Interpol's extensive database of known criminals. In the meantime, Lutz has moved on and continues to narrow down the list of suspects through interviews and background checks.