The main perpetrator behind a fire attack on a sleeping homeless man in Berlin last Christmas Eve was sentenced on Tuesday to two years and nine months in prison. The 21-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday of attempting to cause grievous bodily for lighting a fire next to a sleeping homeless man in Berlin on Christmas Eve last year. Six other refugees who were with him at the time were also convicted of charges of either assisting in the crime, or of failing to assist the homeless man. The group of young men from either Syria or Libya had seen the homeless man sleeping on a bench at an U-Bahn train station in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. As the group fled the scene, passengers who got out of a train were able to put out the flames, and the homeless man remained unharmed.

Source: The Local June 13, 2017 13:41 UTC