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Cologne: CDU politician sentenced to imprisonment for bodily harm

2022-01-10T16:57:21.277Z


Hans-Josef B. is said to have racially insulted passers-by, threatened them and shot one of them. Now the former CDU politician has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison.


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A former CDU local politician has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the Cologne Regional Court for dangerous bodily harm, insults and illegal possession of weapons.

According to the chamber, the 74-year-old Hans-Josef B. shot and injured a 20-year-old in 2019, as a court spokeswoman said.

The verdict was somewhat milder than the prosecution's request, which had requested three years and nine months in prison.

Together with three acquaintances, the victim is said to have walked past the house of the local politician at the time of the crime.

"Dreckspack", "Dreckskanaken" and "Drecksausländer" is said to have shouted to the young people when they drove by, drinking vodka and listening to music.

After a verbal battle, B. then took up a gun and shot the 20-year-old.

The projectile pierced its right upper arm and exited at the shoulder.

B. is said to have had no license to own a gun and was drunk at the time of the crime.

He was arrested shortly after the crime.

The Cologne district court found the accused guilty of dangerous physical harm in unity with a violation of the gun law and insult.

The 74-year-old German showed a "xenophobic attitude".

"Malicious and perfidious act"

The defendant had admitted the shot at the young man by his defense lawyers on the first day of the trial, but had it portrayed as an accident.

He had denied racist motives.

After eight days of hearing, 20 witnesses and three expert reports, the court came to a different conclusion.

Accordingly, the 74-year-old fired "a targeted shot in the direction of the upper body" of his victim.

In his closing lecture, the prosecutor had spoken of a "malicious and perfidious" act.

The defendant asked his victim: "Come to my property, then I'll shoot you." Neither in his statement read by the defense attorney on the first day of the trial nor in his last word, the defendant showed a sign of regret.

The defense had pleaded for acquittal and called the injured party and co-plaintiff as "impostor and liar".

The case made waves in Cologne.

The act was discussed above all in social networks.

The left-wing initiative "Tatort Porz" called for protest after the verdict was pronounced.

The judgment is not final, an appeal can be filed.

ala / AFP

Source: spiegel

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