His head lowered, his gaze pinned somewhere on the dark wood table in front of him. The eyelids are almost closed, sometimes it seems as Sergei W. would just go to sleep. He has held it for eleven months as a defendant in this criminal case, to negotiate the Dortmund regional court. And he remained, as judge Peter Windgätter announced the verdict against him. 14 years of W. to prison for attempted murder, 28 cases of dangerous bodily harm and causing a explosive blast.
Sergei W., the parted shoulder-length hair strictly, the shirt was snow white and perfectly ironed, looks still on the table. “Apathetic, phlegmatic, as we know it,” Prosecutor Carsten Dombert later.
“We are relieved,” says defender Carl Heydenreich, then. After all, a life sentence had been in the room, now it’s 14 years. It was quite a success.
The court saw it as proven that Sergei W. on 11. April 2017 perpetrated a bomb attack on the Bus of football club Borussia Dortmund, to earn money. W. had previously seem to be with high-risk option to a collapse of the BVB share bet and wanted to earn a six-figure amount.
“fear”
All of the allegations, the 29-Year-old had set up during the procedure, you can refute, said Windgätter. That he had detonated the three bombs with dozens of metal pins only, in order to spread “fear and terror”. He constructed deliberately so that no one would come to harm. All of this has taken him by the Dortmund regional court. The sentence was taken into account, that it is, ultimately, the attempted murder was stayed, even if characteristics such as greed and treachery were met, said the judge. Nevertheless, the killing had try only with conditional intent.
An hour the Chairman explained the decision of the chamber, and was Pashacasino struck again and again by violent cough seizures home. A Lolly gave relief. Windgätter worked initially on the biography of the offender, who was moved at the age of 13 with his family from Russia to the South of Germany. School, training as an electrical technician with distinction, then a Job in Tübingen, depression, drugs, the failed relationship.
But when, finally, the subject remained Windgätter surprisingly pale. Something schnoddrig he repeated the statement of the defender that the always want to leave again have thoughts of suicide ring at the end of W. with the stop of his family’s money, should he divorce one day out of life. The judges seemed to have doubts that he did not want to comment on but clearly.
Cold Kalkühl
Anyway, he renounced the Grand gesture, the admonishing word. No appeal, no explanation of the moral abyss that someone from a purely economic calculus wants to convey, without a doubt, if people in the death. The Chairman stressed that it is for the court, therefore, impressive to experience the stakeholders of the BVB before the court “close-up”. Not because it had been a prominent player, but to see how the pros describe your sense of life, if, after such an act required of them: “Put your shoes on, and tomorrow night it goes.” You have to understand, too.
the BVB team bus after the attack (archive)
The club showed itself satisfied with the verdict. “We felt it was important that the court recognize the attempted murder,” said BVB lawyer Alfons Becker. Defender Heydenreich, had denied the killing intent of his client to the last, and a penalty of well under ten years, required. “I’m glad the defense came through with their strategy,” said state’s attorney Dombert, who had called for a life sentence. A defeat but the imposed 14 years.
Whether Sergei W. will accept the verdict, is still unclear. “We must now speak in silence with him and then see if the Revision is out of the question,” said defender Heydenreich.
