(Deutsche Welle) A court in the southeastern German town of Amberg on Friday handed a jail term of two years and seven months to an 18-year-old Iranian who carried out arbitrary attacks on passersby in the town shortly before New Year’s Eve in 2018. Three other defendants received suspended sentences of between six and 11 months.
The attacks on December 29, in which 15 people were injured, received widespread media attention in Germany and led to calls from some quarters for laws on deporting criminal asylum-seekers to be eased.
How the attacks unfolded
- The four young men, from Afghanistan and Iran, attacked and/or verbally harassed 21 passersby in the Bavarian town.
- Fifteen people suffered injuries, mostly minor.
