The Aachen Regional Court has sentenced a serial offender known as "Brummi-Andi" to four years and three months in prison. The judges considered 20 offenses to be proven - including serious arson, assault and counterfeiting.
The 33-year-old was also convicted of dangerous interference in the traffic. At high speed, he had been traveling in Solingen in a residential street. Although he met a car, he was as usual rabid and aggressive and only on his own concerns, said the prosecutor in her plea. Although the driver of the other car still avoided the curb, there was a collision. Two parked cars were demolished.
The preventive detention in the room was not imposed by the judges. It would be premature to speak of a tendency to dangerous offenses, said the chairman Judge Jürgen Beneking. "Whether it will happen depends on you," he said to the defendant.
"At some point is over with youthfulness"
Previously, an appraiser had seen no pathological tendency to significant or dangerous offenses. "We think we've seen evidence of a degree of post-maturity, but there's an end to youthfulness," Beneking said.
72 offenses were charged in the Aachen trial, 52 of the 33-year-old was acquitted - including the serious allegations of forced prostitution and pimping. Key witnesses were implausible, Beneking said, "In doubt for the defendant."
For prosecutor Tanja Gülicher-Schmitt, however, the charges were only the tip of the iceberg. She had claimed more than five years in prison for 26 offenses. From their point of view, the defendant should not get a driving license for life, because he is intoxicated and ruthless on the streets.
Already as a teenager, the 33-year-old had made jaunts with stolen trucks and killed a police officer at the age of 14 when he broke a roadblock with a stolen truck in the Netherlands. In 2001, the district court in Düsseldorf sentenced him to four years' imprisonment.