(Deutsche Welle) A court in Itzehoe on Wednesday sentenced a 34-year-old man to life in prison for killing two people and stabbing several others on a local train in northern Germany last January.
A 17-year-old and her 19-year-old boyfriend were killed in the attack; four others were wounded. The train was running from Hamburg to Kiel in northern Germany; it was stopped and the man was apprehended in the small town of Brokstedt.
What were the charges?
The Palestinian national Ibrahim A. faced two charges of murder and four of attempted murder, with the prosecution calling for a life sentence and also seeking to demonstrate the “particular severity of guilt” required in Germany for a full conviction akin to first-degree murder in the US.
