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🇩🇪 In Germany, a Turkish teenager who shot a police officer multiple times has been acquitted of murder and will avoid prison — after telling a court he was often in a "bad mood" due to a lack of prospects. Police officer Simon Bohr, 34, was shot in the head, face, neck, shoulder, abdomen, and back after the suspect robbed a gas station, stole a police weapon, and opened fire during his arrest last August. The gunman admitted to the killing, but claimed he had fired as he was in fear of his own life, telling psychiatrists that he was scared the police would kill him, 'like they do in the United States.' Prosecutors pushed for a 13-year sentence for murder. Instead, the court only convicted him of aggravated robbery and ruled he had diminished responsibility due to schizophrenia and anxiety, ordering psychiatric detention instead of prison. The defendant had been on a concoction of medication prescribed to him by a doctor while he was back in Turkey. The officer’s widow sat opposite the man who killed her husband in court. "Such verdicts leave one stunned — and amount to a free pass for all future perpetrators," said AfD co-leader Alice Weidel. Rainer Wendt, federal chairman of the German Police Union, said, "I am speechless at such a verdict, and my thoughts are with the bereaved family of our colleague. They will feel abandoned by the justice system, and I can well understand that. To commit the robbery while fully conscious, and then to ruthlessly shoot his way out and kill someone, and then suddenly claim mental illness – that, in turn, is incomprehensible."
