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DURTMUND (AFP) – A German court on Tuesday sentenced Russian and German Sergey Venergold to 14 years in prison for attempting to target the Borussia Dortmund football team in April 2017 for the purpose. to drop the course of his team and make financial gains.
The 29-year-old Dortmund (West Germany) court condemned this badbadination attempt after detonating three small explosive devices while the team bus was about to to go to Monaco in the quarterfinals of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
After 11 months of trial, the court sentenced the Russian-born electrician for causing an explosion and wounding two people, a police officer and former player of Spanish defender Mark Barreta.
Venergold was staying in the same hotel where the team was prepared for the match and blew up the minivans as the bus headed to Edona Ségélon Park on April 11, 2017.
In each of the trapped guns, Feinergold placed an explosive charge of one kilogram, in addition to some 65 small iron balls.
In an effort to disguise himself, he left messages at the scene of the crime hinting at the involvement of Islamist extremists in the bombing, prompting the authorities to start believing that the Those responsible for the attack could come from jihadist organizations.
The investigation eventually led to his arrest and indictment, after the prosecutors declared that he had placed a € 26,000 bet on a fall in the share price of the club and was hoping to achieve financial income of half a million euros.
Finergold acknowledged in January that he was responsible for the attack and told the court last week that he wanted to "apologize to everyone."
His lawyer, Karl Heinrich, insisted that his client did not intend to cause death or injury to anyone, he was only trying to spread panic.
According to some information, Feinergold allegedly raised suspicions regarding hotel officials, insisting on getting a room with a window overlooking the place where the bus was going and later after the attack at the hotel. the bomb, go down quietly to the restaurant and ask for a piece of meat.
He was arrested ten days later.
During the trial, four players from Dortmund testified to their shock after the attack that delayed the match for the next day. Dortmund lost at home (2-3) and a quarter-final loss of a 1-3 loss.
The match was triggered the day after the bombardment by severe critics of the German team, especially his former coach, Thomas Tughel (current coach of Paris St Germain). According to some information, the approval of the match by the Dortmund administration the next day was a major cause of the conflict with the coach.
The team announced the end of May 2017 the departure of the team.
© 2018 AFP
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