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A 77-year old woman and a child? FFS, this has strong entrapment vibes. Similar to what the FBI has been known to do during the War on Terror.
Great for making headlines and patting yourselves on the back, but piss poor for averting the far-right takeover of the central government through more traditional channels of business corruption, blackmail, and media slander. The AfD and its even-more-extremist peers aren't going to consider this sort of sting operation so much as a speedbump on the way to the Reichstag.
I'm not seeing where you're getting a child from.
This fifth defendant business irks me, too: four men and a woman are already five, any further defendants with different sentences should be at least sixth. But that's more on the journalist/editor, not you.
German law protects minors in such a way that the press can't describe any distinguishing features in the news. So "Five well-defined people and a sixth vague person" typically means the sixth person is a child.
Gotcha, that was the context I missed. Thanks!
Only that the explanation is wrong. For first a child can not judged for anything in Germany. If it would be a older than than 14 then it could be judged but only by a special court with special rules and laws. The chance that both sentences would be presented on the same day would be low. The real answer is that they were 5 persons (4 men and 1 woman). 4 of them (including the woman) were considered as leaders (getting higher sentences), while another was only considered as a non-leader (getting a lower sentence).
Any arguments for your tin foil hat theory besides vibes? No? Then why post it at all?