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Man is jailed for life for driving Mercedes into German carnival parade last year, seriously injuring 90 people
2021-12-17
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Maurice Pahler, 31, given life term for German carnival attack in February 2020

  • He was convicted of 89 counts of attempted murder after driving into crowds watching parade in Volkmarsen in Hesse

  • Prosecutors said attack was deliberate, and he filmed it using a dash camera

  • But not motive was given - Pahler has never spoken to police about the attack, gave no testimony, and refused to cooperate with psychologists
    It seems reasonable to assume this was therefore not jihad — jihadis tend to shriek their devotion to the skies.
Deutsche Welle adds:
A psychiatric assessment of Maurice P. concluded that he suffers from a severe personality disorder that includes narcissistic, schizophrenic and paranoid traits.

However, he was not deemed to be in need of stationary psychiatric care.
Unexpectedly.
Related:
Volkmarsen: 2020-02-24 Car drives into German carnival parade, around 30 injured
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Posted by:Skidmark

#13  Thank you for clarifying, European Conservative.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-12-17 17:58  

#12  "The court also ruled that there was a "particular severity of guilt" in the crime, which in Germany means that the accused will not be automatically eligible for a parole hearing after 15 years as is usual with other life sentences."

Looks more like 25 years before parole could be granted but if he's considered a danger after this time he will remain locked up.
Posted by: European Conservative   2021-12-17 17:20  

#11   It's not like the type/make/model, of the vehicle makes any difference.

Clearly they're heavy, gas hog, CO2 belching SUVs.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-17 11:07  

#10  So, he takes LSD twice "under supervision" and is released. Eurine dribble.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-17 10:48  

#9   in Germany, being jailed 'for life' means what - about 10 years?

Normally, yes, but the article makes clear he will stay in prison until he accepts psychiatric treatment — in lieu of a locked psychiatric ward for the violent insane.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-12-17 10:43  

#8  I think 7 years, with a minute off for every second of good behavior.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-17 10:27  

#7  Of course, in Germany, being jailed 'for life' means what - about 10 years?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2021-12-17 10:09  

#6  Why do the politicians and news outlets (I know, redundant statement) keep reporting the type of vehicle that these nutters use to intentionally maim/kill others? It's not like the type/make/model, of the vehicle makes any difference.

The human attackers are the ones at fault and whatever they use is only a tool to achieve their goal.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-12-17 07:40  

#5  A psychiatric assessment of Maurice P. concluded that he suffers from a severe personality disorder that includes narcissistic, schizophrenic and paranoid traits.

So, sort of like Nancy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-12-17 06:44  

#4  "But no motive was given..."

Wonder why? .... was it something that would make the German-EU Socialist Diversity agenda to be failing?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-12-17 06:33  

#3  "There's no logic to this loss"

Not to you fucking corrupt morons. The rest of us can spot the logic a mile away: the killer is a BLM-supporting race-warrior who mouthed hated of whites again and again and again, all over his squalid social media accounts.

He drove over an hour from his home in Milwaukee to 89%-white Waukesha for the express purpose of slaughtering dozens of happy, ordinary white people at their joyful Christmas parade.

His logic is Woke logic.
Democrat logic.
The logic of your cynical, vile, America-destroying race-Marxism.

So GFYourselves, you illegitimate posturing scumbags
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-17 02:13  

#2  So the guy in Germany, certified crazy, gets the full ride while the [criminal but not yet crazy] Waukeshoid may get much less.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-17 00:33  

#1  'There's no logic to this loss': Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff meet families of victims of the Waukesha Christmas Parade in which six were killed as they face the first holiday season without their loved ones
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-16 15:59  

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