frankfurt · DE
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Three young men were convicted of attempted murder by the Frankfurt regional court on 24 September 2026 over an attack on a police car and the officers inside it on New Year's Eve 2024. That evening a group of ten to fifteen people was out in the Nordwestzentrum district of Frankfurt. The court found that their aim was to use the noise and activity of New Year's Eve as cover for attacking police officers. The group first gathered in a park, where they made Molotov cocktails and set off fireworks, then moved shortly after 23:00 to a square in the Nordwestzentrum. From a footbridge they threw fireworks and other incendiary devices at a passing police car. At 23:16 the group moved to a nearby pedestrian crossing, where an electric scooter 120cm long and weighing 29.25kg was standing. The court found that they agreed to drop it only once a car was close to the bridge, wanting to cause the greatest possible damage. When they heard sirens, a car carrying five officers approached at 85km/h. On a command two of the group threw bottles, and moments later a third threw the scooter. The scooter struck the car beside the interior mirror. The windscreen shattered but was held together by a safety film. The driver suffered a head injury and, despite poor visibility, managed to brake and bring the car to a stop at a bus stop. Two of the officers were injured. The judge called the outcome the best case that could have occurred, and said tests and calculations had shown the driver would have been killed had the scooter been released two milliseconds earlier. The court imposed seven years' imprisonment on the man who threw the scooter, six years on another defendant and four years and ten months on the one it found had coordinated the group at the scene. The sentences went beyond what the prosecution had sought. All three were sentenced under juvenile criminal law, having been 16, 17 and 19 at the time of the offence.
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