Judgments - Armed attack before the Chancellery - The judgment is legally binding
The penalties imposed by the court following the attack in front of the Thuringia State Chancellery in the summer of 2020 are valid. The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe has reportedly dismissed the appeals of two defendants as obviously unfounded. Therefore, the judgment of the Erfurt Regional Court remains in force.
The Erfurt judges had sentenced two of the five accused men to prison terms of two years and six months and two years and three months in March of the previous year for multiple bodily injury offenses. The remaining three co-defendants received probation.
The Erfurt court considered it proven that the five men attacked numerous people in the Hirschgarten in Erfurt during the summer of 2020, including at least one civil police officer. Some of the victims were seriously injured.
The Hirschgarten is located directly in front of the Thuringia State Chancellery. However, the court classified the attack differently than the prosecution, neither as a planned crime nor as a breach of the peace.
- The defendants, dissatisfied with their sentences, decided to appeal the judgments at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe.
- The Raid on the Thuringia State Chancellery in Erfurt resulted in several men being charged and prosecuted for multiple bodily injury offenses.
- Subsequent to the dismissal of their appeals as unfounded, the two convicted men will now serve the imposed fines alongside their prison sentences.
- The Federal Court of Justice's decision not to overturn the initial judgments upheld the authority of the Erfurt court and its process.
- Despite the unwarranted nature of the attack, some of the victims, including men and civil police officers, were still left to cope with physical and emotional scars in Erfurt and Thuringia.
