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DORTMUND, Germany (Reuters) – A German court on Tuesday sentenced a 14-year-old German-Russian man to a bomb attack on the bus of the Borussia Dortmund (BVB) football team in 2017 in the United States. part of a project to earn money.
The 29-year-old defendant, identified by authorities only as Sergei W., admitted to having set up the roadside bomb in April 2017, injuring one of the club's players, but claiming that he wanted to make money rather than hurt or kill anyone.
He had been charged with attempted murder, serious injury and explosion.
"The act has been meticulously planned over a long period of time," Judge Peter Windgaetter told the court. The accused, he added, had acted out of greed and was counting on the possibility of death on the bus.
The team was heading to the stadium, the largest in Germany with a capacity of 80,000 seats, for a Champions League match against AS Monaco when the bomb exploded.
Spanish defender Marc Bartra and a police officer were injured and the match was delayed one day.
The defendant, who seemed indifferent to the judge's conviction, expressed deep regret for the attack, saying that he had no intention of hurting anyone and that the Purpose was to cause a fall in BVB's share price which it could profit from.
The judge said that he had decided on the attack in October 2016 and had tried to mislead the investigators by writing fake letters of supposed Belgian Islamists claiming their responsibilities.
Prosecutors, who wanted him to be jailed for life, had claimed that the defendant had bought for the day of the attack options worth 44,000 euros (39,010.74 pounds) that he could have sold for profit if the stock price had dropped.
In fact, BVB shares rose after the attack. The club's shares also rose 2.7% on Monday after the club's last Bundesliga victory.
Both parties left open the possibility of appeal.
(Written by Madeline Chambers, edited by Mark Heinrich)
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