Just over a year after the riot in the Bamberger "anchor center" one of the main perpetrators has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The Bamberg Regional Court found a 23-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker guilty of severe arson, dangerous assault and assault on law enforcement officials.
For the second chief offender, the board ordered the placement in a psychiatric hospital. His ability to control had been abolished as a result of a change in nature by a disorder of the brain and nearly two per thousand alcohol content in the blood.
The two men were the main agitators, said the chairman Judge Markus Reznik. The police had the night of action comprehensively documented on video, so the crimes are well documented. "The recordings can also be stunned, with which pointless violence was acted here and in what dread the residents have tried to save their lives," said the judge.
A third defendant was sentenced to one year and nine months for assaulting law enforcement officials. The fourth defendant was acquitted.
The Eritrean men, according to the court, had thrown stones and iron bars at security personnel and police officers in the refugee reception center on the night of December 11 last year following a dispute over loud music. After that, several mattresses went up in flames. An apartment and the roof of the building burned out of the fire.
15 people were injured, many of them suffered flue gas injuries. According to the indictment, there was danger to his life at the time. Overall, a damage of 135,000 euros. The judgments are partially not yet final.
