Germany: Afghan Migrant Given Lenient Sentence After Stabbing Victim Six Times

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A 29-year-old Afghan migrant has been handed a six-year prison sentence after brutally attacking a 27-year-old schoolteacher in broad daylight on a public street in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany. The assault, which was entirely random and completely unprovoked, shocked the local community for both its violence and its apparent lack of motive.

Despite the severity of the attack—he stabbed the woman four times in the back and twice in the thigh—the Stuttgart court ultimately ruled that the incident did not amount to attempted murder. The reason: the assailant stopped his attack the moment the victim screamed. This single detail was considered enough by the court to argue that the attacker had “withdrawn from attempted murder,” a legal interpretation highlighted in the reporting of Yvonne Kussman for Aktuelle Informiert.

The incident occurred on March 14 of this year, when the victim, a teacher, was walking home from work through a residential neighbourhood. The migrant, who had no prior connection to the woman, approached her silently from behind. He grabbed her by the neck with one hand and, with the other, repeatedly plunged a 9.5-centimeter knife into her back. After delivering four deep stab wounds, he inflicted two more blows to her thigh. As soon as the woman began screaming in terror, he released her and fled the scene.

It was this moment—the attacker’s abrupt decision to run instead of continuing the stabbing—that the court used to justify downgrading the charge. Because he voluntarily broke off the assault and did not pursue further harm, the judges concluded he had technically retreated from the intent to kill. As a result, he was convicted only of causing grievous bodily harm, a lesser offense under German law.

(This Article was originally published by Jihad Watch)