Overview

• The first criminal chamber convicted the 29-year-old of dangerous interference with road traffic, bodily harm, assaults on officers and driving without a licence, incorporating an earlier case from Saxony-Anhalt.
• Placement in a psychiatric hospital is ordered for an indefinite period and precedes the custodial sentence.
• During the November 18, 2024 pursuit from Hamburg to Kiel, the defendant crashed into police vehicles, demanded a hostage and claimed to have weapons, though none were found.
• The prosecutor had sought three years and six months plus psychiatric commitment and a three-year driving ban, but the court imposed a slightly shorter prison term.
• The judgment is not final, and the defence plans to appeal focusing on the psychiatric placement.