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 is convicted of attempted murder in 28 cases.
• During the attack, BVB player Marc Bartra and a policeman were injured.
• The accused, aged 29, had confessed but denied having wanted to seriously hurt people.

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 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.

Explosives expert questioned Sergei W.'s testimony

He knew that BVB's shares would only be severely crushed if the capital of BVB was mbadively damaged or destroyed, Dombert said at the time. And the "resources" of the BVB are now the players. A little fright was not enough. Explanations are purely protective statements.

Even an explosives expert who testified during the proceedings questioned the testimony of the accused. "If I just wanted to scare somebody, I would do it without splinters or I would aim the bombs so that the shards would only fly in the air," he said. This was not the case with Sergei W.'s bombs. The accused was counting on the possibility of people dying, Judge Peter Windgätter said in the verdict. "The direction of the explosion was not manageable for him."

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.

"The attack has changed my life"

During the process, the judges had heard almost all the former players as witnesses. Defender Matthias Ginter, who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach today, burst into tears. Guard Roman Weidenfeller, who was still active for Dortmund at that time, said: "The attack has changed my life."

At the time, Thomas Tuchel, the coach of Dortmund, had even speculated in his testimony that he would have remained in office after the current season without the badbadination. The defenders described Sergey W. in their pleadings as a deeply troubled personality, with narcissistic and disgusting features.