Attack of the microphone from Dortmund: 14 years of imprisonment

German justice sentenced Sergei W. to 14 years in prison by attack with three bombs against the campus microphone of the Borussia Dortmund April 11, 2017, during which the Spanish defender was injured Marc Bartra.

The court of Dortmund said Sergej W., 29, guilty 28 badbadination attempts for the attack, in which a police officer charged with escorting them to the football stadium was also slightly injured.

Similarly, the German court also ruled that the young man was guilty of blowing up three explosive devices at the exit of the bus from the hotel where they were concentrated.

"The accused was waiting for people to die," Judge Peter Windgätter said in explaining the verdict. "He could not control the direction of the blast."

During the 11 months the process lasted, the judges interviewed witnesses, sought expert advice and repeatedly gave the floor to the accused himself, arrested ten days after the attackafter being watched by the police.

The defendant admitted from the beginning that he was the one who made the bombs, that he had hidden them near the hotel of the team and that the devices had exploded when the microphone had gone to his stadium. face Monaco in the Champions League. Sergej W., who was born in Russia and now has only German nationality, has nevertheless stated at all times that I did not want to kill or hurt anyonesomething that German justice does not see the same thing.

"Exactly explosive bombs while the bus was at the height of explosives," they said in the verdict. At that time, there were 28 people on the bus.

His lawyer, Carl Heydenreich, said at the trial: his goal was to spread fear and terror. Sergej W. had no intention of killing and, therefore, "only" should be punished for the explosion, he said at the end of the process.

The only goal of this young man, an electronics technician by profession, was to lower the price of the company's shares. Dortmund After the acquisition the day of the attack, 15,000 stock options of the company Dortmund, the the only club in the Bundesliga to be listed, said his defense.

Attorney General Carsten Dombert, who has asked that the accused be sentenced to life, He did not believe a word of this argument at any time. After all, Sergej W. had equipped each explosive device with 65 metal nails, which he had sawed and polished specially at his workplace, he said during the trial.

With the explosion, the shrapnel was thrown by the air and one of the nails entered the bus of the team and he got stuck in a headrest and another landed in the living room of a neighboring house, he was reminded.

"The bombs were out of control," Dombert said in his final statement. It is fortunately not "only" the Spanish defender of the time. Dortmund Marc Bartra was injured in the arm during the explosion and a motorcycle officer suffered a trauma, but the attack was an attempt at badbadination who must be punished with life imprisonment, he asked.

Since Dortmund They did not want to comment on the verdict. "We are focused on the game.The issue has been discussed internally for a long time," said Wednesday the director of German media Sascha Fligge at a press conference devoted to the game against Brugge in the Champions League.

Source: DPA

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