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Halle (dpa / sa) - The defense of a 21-year-old sentenced to imprisonment after a fatal knife attack has initiated an appeal against the court's decision.
A spokesman for the court announced on Wednesday that the appeal was submitted to the regional court in Halle on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison after the attack in an apartment building in Halle last week.
The judges found him guilty of bodily harm resulting in death and dangerous bodily harm.
The prosecutor had demanded six years in prison, the defense pleaded for acquittal.
The German had been on trial for stabbing two men with a kitchen knife in the house in front of an apartment door in September 2020.
According to the autopsy, a 31-year-old was killed by a stab in the heart.
A friend of the same age was seriously injured in the knife attack.
The defendant gave self-defense as a motive.
He felt threatened by the two men.
The court saw it differently.
"There would have been alternatives to avert a danger, for example to call the police," said the presiding judge Jan Stengel in the grounds of the judgment.
Due to the revision of the defense, the case files go to the Federal Court of Justice.
This should then decide whether the procedure contained legal errors.
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