December 5, 2024
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In Germany, the court sentenced minors involved in the murder of Ukrainian basketball players to long imprisonment

In Germany, a court in the city of Essen sentenced to long imprisonment four minors involved in the murder of two Ukrainian teenage basketball players committed in February of this year in Oberhausen. As the broadcaster RB24 reports, the court decided on December 2 that two of the defendants were sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, and two more to ten years. Due to the young age of the accused, the trial was held entirely behind closed doors. Since the accused are minors, they will serve their sentences in a juvenile detention center. The court did not find a xenophobic motive in the commission of the crime. At first, the prosecutor’s office assumed that the athletes were attacked because they came from Ukraine. As the broadcaster WDR notes, two of the convicts have German and two Syrian citizenships. The broadcaster notes that other crimes appear in the verdicts, the accusations were known to the police for committing violent crimes. The judgments have not yet entered into force. The defendants’ lawyers announced an appeal. ”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org

In Germany, a court in the city of Essen sentenced to long imprisonment four minors involved in the murder of two Ukrainian teenage basketball players committed in February of this year in Oberhausen.

As the broadcaster RB24 reports, the court decided on December 2 that two of the defendants were sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, and two more to ten years.

Due to the young age of the accused, the trial was held entirely behind closed doors.

Since the accused are minors, they will serve their sentences in a juvenile detention center.

The court did not find a xenophobic motive in the commission of the crime. At first, the prosecutor’s office assumed that the athletes were attacked because they came from Ukraine. As the broadcaster WDR notes, two of the convicts have German and two Syrian citizenships.

The broadcaster notes that other crimes appear in the verdicts, the accusations were known to the police for committing violent crimes.

The judgments have not yet entered into force. The defendants’ lawyers announced an appeal.

In Germany, as a result of the attack on February 10, 17-year-old Ukrainian basketball player of the youth national team of Ukraine, Volodymyr Ermakov, died, and his friend Artem Kozachenko was in intensive care for a long time. However, he died in hospital.

The boys came to Germany to escape Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. Here they played for the youth basketball team ART Giants (U-19) from Düsseldorf. According to the Essen city police, the first suspect in the attack was arrested on February 12. He turned out to be a 15-year-old teenager, who had previously been in the field of view of law enforcement officers. In a few days, the German law enforcement officers detained three more suspects.

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