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MMC
02-10-2012, 07:09 PM
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Kosovo-Albanian man who killed two U.S. airmen and wounded two others in a gun attack at Frankfurt airport last March was sentenced to life in prison by German court on Friday.

"Yes, this is indeed the first Islamic-motivated terror strike to have happened in Germany," the judge said.

The court in Germany's financial capital heard how the gunman walked up to airmen boarding a U.S. Army bus and asked one of them for a cigarette.
After establishing that they were heading to Afghanistan, Uka shot a 25-year-old man in the back of the head, killing him, according to prosecutors.
He then boarded the bus, shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) and shot dead a 21-year-old airman sitting in the driver's seat. He wounded two others and pulled the trigger on a fifth target when his gun jammed.

The judge had cited aggravating circumstances, meaning he will spend more than 15 years in jail. In Germany those sentenced to life are released after 15 years. The aggravating circumstances mean he will be in jail for a least 18 years.....snip~

http://news.yahoo.com/germany-jails-kosovan-life-u-airmen-murder-131913392.html

Shot our guy right in the back of the head when he turned around. Germany when they say life they only mean 15 years. Even tho this Judge gave him the extension. What a joke!

Conley
02-10-2012, 09:19 PM
"In Germany those sentenced to life are released after 15 years. "

What? How does that make sense?

MMC
02-10-2012, 09:56 PM
I guess they do not understand what it means by the rest of someones life. To be imprisoned as so. Do they even have the death penalty there?

Conley
02-10-2012, 10:23 PM
I guess they do not understand what it means by the rest of someones life. To be imprisoned as so. Do they even have the death penalty there?

Heck no. Almost no one in Europe does.

The death penalty has been abolished in almost all European countries (49 out of 50[1]). The moratorium on the death penalty is enshrined in both the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU) and the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and thus considered a central value. Of all modern European countries, San Marino and Portugal were the first to abolish and only Belarus still practices capital punishment. Latvia is set to become the last EU Member State to abolish capital punishment in war times.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Europe

MMC
02-10-2012, 10:39 PM
I didn't think they did. Still one would think they would be handing out more time than 15 years. Thats released not like up for parole.

Conley
02-10-2012, 10:43 PM
It's doubly bizarre to me. One, calling it life when it's fifteen years. Two, giving a guy only fifteen years when he went on a murdering spree and was only stopped because of a gun jam.