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Eugene

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Tue Nov 27, 2018, 02:36 PM Nov 2018

German man sentenced to 14 years for attempted murder over 2017 Dortmund team bus bomb

Source: Agence France-Presse

A German man who launched a shrapnel bomb attack on the team bus of football club Borussia Dortmund in April 2017 to make money on the club's shares diving was on Tuesday sentenced to 14 years in jail.

A court in Dortmund found Sergej Wenergold, 29, guilty of 28 counts of attempted murder after he detonated three explosive devices while the team bus was en route to the stadium for a Champions League game last year.

After an 11-month trial, the trained electrician, who was born in Russia, was also found guilty of causing an explosion and two counts of causing serious injury after the blasts wounded Spanish defender Marc Bartra and a police officer.

Wenergold had stayed in the same hotel as the team when he remotely triggered the bomb attack on the evening of April 11, 2017 as the bus was heading for a Champions' League quarter-final match against Monaco.

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By Agence France-Presse
27 NOVEMBER 2018 • 2:29PM


Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/27/german-man-sentenced-14-years-attempted-murder-2017-dortmund/

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