Overview
- The Federal Court of Justice confirmed the murder convictions of four defendants who were 14 and 15 at the time of the Oberhausen attack, making youth sentences of eight and a half and ten years final.
- In that case, two Ukrainian national basketball players aged 17 and 18 were set upon after a bus ride and fatally stabbed, which the Essen court deemed a completely unprovoked killing carried out with base motives.
- In Bavaria, the 58-year-old Russian convicted of murdering two Ukrainian soldiers in Murnau now faces a final life sentence after the BGH rejected his appeal and prosecutors filed no further challenge.
- The Munich II court had found a special severity of guilt, making parole after 15 years unlikely, and concluded the stabbings followed a drinking dispute rather than a primarily political motive.
- According to court findings, the Murnau offender left the scene after an argument, retrieved a knife at home, returned to stab the men, and later admitted the act while claiming he lost control.