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Hanover (dpa / lni) - After threatening letters to Hanover’s Lord Mayor Belit Onay and other people with foreign-sounding names, the Hanover District Court sentenced a 20-year-old to a six-month social training course, participation in counseling sessions and two weeks of permanent arrest for incitement to hatred.
On Wednesday, the judge described the letters as inhuman and perfidious.
The prosecutor had requested the social training course and counseling sessions for the man.
Judgment and application was made under juvenile justice because delays in maturity were seen, as a court spokesman said.
The young man had no criminal record, he was a lone perpetrator.
Connections to a right-wing radical network could not be established.
According to the conviction of the court, the 20-year-old had written 18 threatening letters with the same wording, titled “Selection of your disposal method”, in May 2020 and thrown them into mailboxes in the southern part of Hanover, on which, in his opinion, names were foreign.
In the letters he announced that he would soon “dispose of” the victims because of their “dissimilar origin”.
He also called on the Green politician Onay to resign from his offices - otherwise he would kill him with a bomb attack.
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