14 years imprisonment after a stop in a bus of the BVB – Panorama

• Sergei W. attacked the bus of the Borussia Dortmund team last April. He was charged with attempted murder in 28 cases.
• Aged 29, he had confessed to the act but denied having wanted to seriously hurt people.
• The Dortmund District Court sentenced him to 14 years in prison.

The jury trial of Dortmund against Sergei W. has negotiated eleven months. A verdict was made: the man who blew up three bombs on April 11, 2017 next to the Borussia Dortmund bus was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The Dortmunder jury panel said Sergei W., 29, guilty Tuesday of an attempted murder on 28 occasions; furthermore, causing an explosive explosion and dangerous badault.

Sergej W. had admitted the crime at the beginning of the trial but denied having wanted to severely hurt people with explosive devices. He was only trying to sow terror. The accused had admitted that he wanted to manipulate the course of BVB's action during the attack. The price was supposed to rush into the basement, in which case Sergei W. had bought money orders that would have guaranteed him a lucrative sale of his shares. However, the price was only slightly down.

The lawyers of W.Wewey, Carl Heydenreich and Christos Psaltiras, last week asked for a jail sentence of less than ten years for causing explosions. The accused, aged 29, did not intend to kill, but only wanted to spread fear and terror. Attorney General Carsten Dombert baderted that the bombing was in any case an attempted murder punishable by life imprisonment.

During the attack, Spanish central defender Marc Bartra, still active for Borussia Dortmund, was injured inside the team's bus, heavily on his forearm. A policeman who had to drive the bus between the hotel teams and Signal Iduna Park had been injured. The official is now incapacitated. The Champions League match between Borussia Dortmund and AS Monaco was canceled that night and cleared for the next day.