Berlin double-murderer is jailed for life

The 26-year-old man was convicted of two counts of murder and three of attempted murder, while the judge said he deemed him so culpable that in this case life would mean life. “The victims had no chance of escaping the hail of bullets,” said Judge Olaf Arnoldi in his statement. The man, identified only as Mehmet Y., fired 12 shots at the car in which his former wife was sitting with four members of her family. Last August's attack in the north central district of Wedding shocked the German capital, largely unused to gun violence. “It was a planned attack,” said Judge Arnoldi. The prosecution argued that three months after his divorce, Mehmet Y., had acted out of “revenge, hate and jealousy.”

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