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The perpetrator of the April 2017 attack on the bus of the Dortmund football team, which had two injured before a match against Monaco, was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years imprisonment.
Sergueï Wenergold, a 29-year-old Russian-born German, has been convicted of attempted murder by the Dortmund court. He had the idea to decimate the team Borussia Dortmund to drop the course of action of the club, against which he had speculated, in order to get rich.
After 11 months of trial, the prosecutor's office had required life, believing that the accused had indeed intended to kill as many people as possible. Several experts came to the helm to confirm the dangerousness of his installation and his three bombs filled with iron rods. He had bought for 26,000 euros of financial products from Borussia, betting on a sharp drop in prices. His plan could have brought him nearly 500,000 euros, according to the prosecution.
On the other hand, the defense argued for a sentence of less than 10 years, arguing that the accused had mainly sought "to scare". He badured himself that he did not want to kill anyone.
"I would like to apologize to everyone," he said in his last speech.
Handyman gifted to make the machines, but obviously bad artificer, he had misplaced his bombs, which have only two wounded: the Spanish player Marc Bartra, touched on the wrist by shards of glbad while he was in the bus , and a policeman on a motorcycle escort hit by the breath of the explosion.
– Shocked players –
The bus was damaged by explosions as the team made their way to the stadium in the early evening on April 11, 2017 to play in a first-leg quarter-final match against Monaco.
For the club, the attack has had several negative consequences. Still shocked, the players had to play the match the next day against their will. They were finally eliminated (defeats 3-2 and 3-1), with the impression of not having been able to defend their chances fairly.
This decision to play the game so quickly also caused a clash between coach Thomas Tuchel and club boss Hans-Joachim Watzke. The coach was finally sacked at the end of the season, despite excellent sports results.
Just after the attack, the investigation first turned to Islamist terrorism, based on letters left by the author to mislead the police. Then to the tracks of the extreme right and the extreme left German.
Finally, the police went back to the young man who, on the day of the events, had resided in the hotel of the Dortmund players. He had a training in electro-technique to make explosives.
Several players from Dortmund, including Marc Bartra, came to testify to say how much the attack had traumatized them. Some needed psychological counseling for months.
During his testimony in January 2018, nine months after the attack, Marc Batra said he had "still not digested" the attack and continue to "suffer".
The Spanish defender left the German club at the same time to engage with Betis Sevilla.
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