Before the accused described the police officers who had been shot in Rhineland-Palatinate as "bastards", he had already unleashed a series of insults on police officers, according to the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office.

On February 4, the police were called to his apartment in a Munich apartment building.

The man reportedly pounded on neighbors' doors and yelled that he was going to "slit someone's throat".

Karen Truscheit

Editor in the “Germany and the World” department.

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Through the closed door of his ground floor apartment, he then called the police officers called “shitty cops” and “wankers”.

The policemen went to the terrace, the man came up to them and yelled that they were "stupid bull pigs": The "wankers" should be shot just like the "bastards" last week. 

According to the Attorney General, he was referring to the fatal shooting of two police officers, a 24-year-old police officer and a 29-year-old police commissioner, on January 31 in the Kusel municipality.

He had "in this way expressed his consent to the act".

In addition, according to the information with the designation "bastards" shortly after the killing of two people, he disparaged them "particularly roughly and seriously".

On Thursday, the 35-year-old defendant had to answer before the Munich district court for, among other things, rewarding and approving criminal offenses, denigrating the memory of the deceased and insult.

The man continued the insults with expressions such as "bull pigs", "damned wankers", "stupid Jews", even after two more police officers had arrived.

Finally, he grabbed a knife lying on the ground, held it out to the police officers two to three meters away and threatened them: "What do you want to do now?" After threatening to use pepper spray, he threw the knife away and was taken to the ground and fixed with handcuffs.

He tried to free himself and kick the police officers.

This was accompanied by racist terms for the police officers: "Jewish pigs", "Drecksjuden", "Scheiß-Kanaken".

On the transport to the police station, he said he would not be arrested by a "Kanaken" but only by a German citizen.

According to the German Press Agency, he confessed to the allegations in court and asked for an apology.

He blamed the insults on his alcohol consumption.

He blamed the racist statements on his childhood in Thuringia: he grew up there with such things.

He had “long since turned away” from the ideology.

The court sentenced him to one year in prison without parole on Thursday.