Suspended sentences. If that's not a deterrent, I don't know what is. Future Muslim asylum seekers will tremble in their sandals now knowing that if they step out of line, they too will suffer a... suspended sentence.
Two men were convicted of theft and given suspended sentences Wednesday in the first trials for New Year's Eve crimes in the German city of Cologne. A third suspect was convicted under juvenile law and put on probation.
Suspended sentences and probation. The Euros are getting tough here.
Now these criminals are not being tried for the sexual assaults that took place, but they likely were members of the same gangs that carried them out.
The Cologne district court handed a 23-year-old Moroccan asylum-seeker a six-month suspended sentence and a 100-euro ($110) fine for stealing a cellphone from a woman as she photographed the city's cathedral and for possessing drugs.
In a separate trial, a 22-year-old Tunisian was given a three-month suspended sentence for theft. The court found he distracted a man on a bridge near Cologne's main station while his 18-year-old Moroccan co-defendant stole a bag containing a camera.
Between the suspended sentences and the probation, this certainly sends a message. And it isn't, "Don't this again". It's once again the same old message of, "No consequences".
The court stressed that the future of the man's asylum application wasn't a matter for Wednesday's proceedings.
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