After a knife attack on four passengers on an ICE train in Bavaria more than a year ago, the suspect was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The Supreme Court in Munich found the man guilty of, among other things, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
In November last year, he attacked four men with a knife on an ICE train en route to Nuremberg, seriously injuring three of them.
Process took two months
The issue of a possible jihadist background and possible mental illness of the Palestinian who grew up in Syria was at the center of the two-month trial in Munich.
The German federal prosecutor’s office had assumed a radical Islamic background for the crime and last week had demanded life imprisonment in its closing argument.
The defense pleaded for acquittal and psychiatric treatment
The victims’ lawyers, who acted as co-plaintiffs in the lawsuit, joined the claim. The defense, on the other hand, sees their client as an incapacitated, paranoid schizophrenic and pleaded for an acquittal and placement in a psychiatric hospital.
Source: Krone
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