Confession in courtroom: Man threatened with hammer after European Championship sport | EUROtoday

A dramatic incident on the Reeperbahn proper at the beginning of the European Football Championship is now being handled on the Hamburg district courtroom. The accused from Buchholz in Nordheide, Lower Saxony, is claimed to have attacked a police officer and a passerby with a slate hammer and a Molotov cocktail on June sixteenth on the sidelines of a fan march after the Netherlands towards Poland sport. The officers stopped the 39-year-old with two pictures within the legs earlier than he may ignite the incendiary system. At the time, the case was seen as a nasty omen for the safety scenario through the event, however this finally didn’t come true.

The public prosecutor’s workplace assumes that the 39-year-old German is mentally unwell and incompetent. The so-called safety process considerations his doable placement in a psychiatric clinic. So far he has solely been admitted briefly. A second incident is being heard within the trial, which, like the primary offense, the accused admitted in a press release learn out by his lawyer. According to the general public prosecutor’s workplace, on January 19, 2024, the 39-year-old smeared a swastika, his identify and an anti-Jewish slogan on the door of a males’s bathroom in Buchholz. When one other man entered the bathroom, an argument broke out. The accused referred to as him a “son of a bitch” and a “shitty foreigner”, punched him within the face and kicked his head as he fell to the bottom.

The attacked man managed to flee into a rest room cubicle and lock himself in. The 39-year-old hit the door from the skin with a slate hammer and threw a lit firecracker into the cabin, which broken the person’s jacket. Meanwhile, the attacked particular person referred to as the police. The 39-year-old was already identified to the officers. They had already warned him twice that morning, amongst different issues as a result of he had shouted loudly on the street, as one of many cops reported as a witness. They arrested the 39-year-old.

Defendant has a felony file

In the present trial, Buchholzer is accused of tried homicide in two circumstances, violating the weapons regulation, assaulting regulation enforcement officers, threatening and utilizing the symbols of unconstitutional organizations. According to a courtroom spokeswoman, the accused has a earlier conviction for an additional crime. The courtroom has scheduled six additional listening to dates and the decision could possibly be introduced on December nineteenth.