I chatted briefly yesterday about an attack on a German fireman and associate in Augsburg (Friday night). Came as a disagreement on the street, at a Christmas market. The guy (a fireman in the local region) is dead.
Focus has an updated piece to it....cops got busy and identified six of the individuals in the attack. Currently, they are focused on two guys who led this and appears to be the central figures who did most of the attack.
Key parts to the story?
Well....so says the Ministry of Interior....this main guy is a teenager (17 years old) who has German, Lebanese, and Turkish nationality. Yep.....all three. I would assume he carries all three passports.
The second guy (same age) hold Italian citizenship.
So the charges? German law dictates that anyone under 20....is a juvenile. So this will go into a juvenile court. They might still pursue the manslaughter charge. I have my doubts that either 'kid' will spend more than four years in some youth detention center.
The kid who is 'German, Lebanese, and Turkish'? They probably will dissolve his German citizenship after he's finished with imprisonment, and expel him out of the country. For him, that might be the worst to expect besides a couple of years in youth detention.
This might push public opinion to go and revisit the laws over juveniles, and if the level of physical violence has reached a stage in the sixteen states where you need long-term prison situations.
Update: Monday morning. Well, German cops now say over the two guys who are the main part of the attack on the older guy....that they have a 'history' with the police. Usually, when this phrase is uttered....it means that they've been detained or arrested on a number of occasions....which could vary from drunken behavior to selling of drugs. So you really don't know the extent of this 'history'. Does this harm their innocence angle in court? They will still go to juvenile court, and still face manslaughter.....but under juvenile rules.
The juvenile court system in Germany is built along the lines of educating the 'child' rather than punishing them. Yes, even though both are 17....they are still considered 'children'. Potential that all in this youth gang group were consuming alcohol and using drugs? Maybe, but it'll have no affect on the juvenile court system.
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