Germany sentences four terrorists for attempted bombing

A court in Düsselfdorf, Germany, sentenced a terrorist to life in prison for attempted murder on Monday, April 3.

The German-born convert to Islam planted a homemade bomb in the Bonn, Germany, train station in December 2012. The bomb was discovered and defused before it exploded.

He was arrested with three accomplices in March 2103, the night before the planned murder of a far-right politician.

The court argued that even though the attack was unsuccessful, the seriousness of the attempt decreed the most serious sentence.

“The defendants are inhuman terrorists with an extremely high willingness to commit violence,” explained Peter Schuetz, spokesman for the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.

“The fact that nothing happened is not thanks to them. In the case of the Bonn bomb it was merely a lucky coincidence that no explosion with devastating consequences took place,” he said.

Marco G., 29 (name withheld due to privacy laws) was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Marco G. was arrested with three accomplices, each who got 9.5- to 12-year sentences:

Albanian Enea B., 46, German-Turkish Koray D., 28, and German Tayfun S., 27.

The four were also convicted of forming a terrorist organization, as well as planning to kill a member of the far-right Pro NRW party who had demonstrated outside mosques using caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

The four men were arrested in March 2013, the night before planned murder attempt.