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Trial begins over hand grenade thrown at mourners

For months, two groups in the Stuttgart area have been fighting each other with the most brutal means. The highlight of the clashes so far: A hand grenade thrown at a mourning congregation in the Esslingen district. Now the alleged perpetrator is on trial.

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A police officer walks across the cordoned-off section at a crime scene in a cemetery. Photo.aussiedlerbote.de
A police officer walks across the cordoned-off section at a crime scene in a cemetery. Photo.aussiedlerbote.de

Crime - Trial begins over hand grenade thrown at mourners

From Thursday (9.15 a.m.), a 23-year-old man will have to answer to the Stuttgart Regional Court for throwing a hand grenade at a mourning congregation in Altbach near Stuttgart. The public prosecutor's office is accusing the young man of attempted murder, among other things. According to the public prosecutor's office, the Iranian is alleged to have thrown a hand grenade at a group of people at a funeral service at the cemetery in Altbach on June 9. At least 15 mourners were injured in the explosion, some of them seriously.

According to the investigators, the background to the crime is a feud between two rival groups in the Stuttgart area that has been raging for many months. The 23-year-old defendant is said to be close to a group from the Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and Göppingen area, while some of the mourners belonged to another group from the Esslingen area.

For security reasons, the trial is being held in the strictly secured courtroom of the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart-Stammheim. Eleven trial days have been scheduled so far. A verdict is not expected before mid-March.

Read also:

  1. The public prosecutor's office in Baden-Württemberg is handling the criminal case related to the hand grenade throw at the mourning congregation in Altbach.
  2. Despite the ongoing feud between two rival groups in the Stuttgart area, the trial for the attempted murder charge will begin at the Stuttgart Regional Court.
  3. The mourning community in Esslingen, some of whom were injured in the hand grenade explosion, are closely following the criminal processes in Stuttgart.
  4. The trial related to the hand grenade incident is being conducted in a strictly secured courtroom at the Stuttgart-Stammheim Higher Regional Court.
  5. Notably, this is not the first instance of criminality in the Stuttgart area, as other serious cases such as murder have also been under investigation.

Source: www.stern.de

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