{"id":645,"date":"2019-03-01T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/borussia-dortmund-bus-bomber-gets-14-years-in-prison-on-28-counts-of-attempted-murder\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T03:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T03:13:17","slug":"borussia-dortmund-bus-bomber-gets-14-years-in-prison-on-28-counts-of-attempted-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund bus bomber gets 14 years in prison on 28 counts of attempted murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 29-year-old denied trying to kill anyone by targeting the team bus with three bombs, but was found guilty on attempted murder charges <\/p>\n

The man who attacked Borussia Dortmund’s bus with a bomb has been found guilty of 28 counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n

A court in Dortmund convicted the man, a dual German-Russian national\u00a0known as Sergej W, on Tuesday for the attack carried out on April 11, 2017 when the German side were en route to a Champions League clash against Monaco.<\/p>\n

The explosion occurred shortly after the team embarked on their journey\u00a0from their hotel and left centre-back Marc Bartra needing surgery on a fractured wrist and shrapnel in his arm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A police officer was also injured in the attack, but no other Dortmund players or members of staff were hurt.<\/p>\n

The culprit admitted to making and setting off three bombs in the attack, but he has denied that he tried to kill anyone in the process.<\/p>\n

In fact, the bombing was part of a money-making scheme. On the day of the attack, the 29-year-old bought\u00a0\u20ac44,000 worth of share options with the expectation that the club’s stock price would plummet and allow him to sell them on for a large profit.<\/p>\n

Instead, the share price rose in the wake of the attack.<\/p>\n

Bartra, now at Real Betis, described the incident as\u00a0“the longest 15 minutes of my life”, while defender Matthias Ginter admitted he considered retiring from the game as a result of the attack.<\/p>\n

Then Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel, who currently manages Paris Saint-Germain, said in March that he would have stayed at the German club had the attack not happened.<\/p>\n

When asked by chief prosecutor Carsten Dombert at the trial whether he would have remained as BVB boss had the events of April 11 not occurred, Tuchel replied:\u00a0“I would assume that.<\/p>\n

“Aki [Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke\u00a0] has already said publicly that there has been big dissent, which is true.<\/p>\n

“The big dissent was that I was sitting on the bus and Aki was not. That’s why there was a different approach to dealing with it, without wanting to reproach Aki for that.”<\/p>\n

The match against Monaco was rescheduled for the day after the attack, with the visitors claiming a 3-2 victory that they would duly close out with a 3-1 win in the return leg.<\/p>\n

After the rearranged game, Tuchel claimed neither he nor his players had been consulted over playing 24 hours on from ordeal \u2013 something Watzke denied.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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