Attack on refugee home: ex-NPD politician sentenced to nine years imprisonment

In a review process has been imposed on the former NPD politician Maik Schneider a high prison sentence. The district court of Potsdam sentenced him to nine years and one month in prison.

"All acts are an expression of a misanthropic xenophobic sentiment," said the judge Klaus Feldmann in the verdict. Schneider fired a sports hall in Nauen, Brandenburg, in August 2015, where refugees were to be accommodated, according to the Chamber.

For this and for other acts the judges pronounced the punishment. The prosecution had demanded eight years and three months in prison.

Schneider was released from custody in January. The higher regional court Brandenburg justified this with "avoidable process delays". Schneider was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison in February 2017. However, this verdict had been overturned by the Federal Court of Justice because of the bias of a jury last year, and the process had to be reopened.