Bonn / Reichshof - He wanted to burn his neighbor. Anthony G. (51) set the fire, looked in front of the house, everything to with relish. Now he is under arrest for attempted murder and serious arson in the dock of the court.
He has an arrangement with the branch manager of the supermarket. Only eight bottles of beer a day may buy Anton G. (name changed) in the store. As on 24 April, when the drunk, according to the indictment of paper and branches piled in his apartment and lit it.
Then he grabbed his television with remote, sat down in front of the semi on the device and looked at the fire. The motive: The fire should skip to the next house, where his arch enemy lives with a 62-year-old woman.
To find him in front of his supervisor, who wanted him justamente visit. The 61-year-old on Monday before the court:
"Quite a massive, black smoke came out the front door. He sat on the TV, grinned and laughed. He said that would burn the whole place and the neighbor is equal to mitverrecken. "
The neighbors of the Austrian native who lives in a controversy for years. The neighbor: "He often rampage when he's drunk. He has already smashed car window. "Anton G. sees it differently:" They have made sure that I was arrested for 18 times. "
The neighbors were a blessing in disguise: The couple was at the time of the fire is not in the house. Only her two dogs were able to burn - but the fire brigade prevented a greater harm.
Anton G. (long hair, beard) denied the deed. He argued that the Social Services had taken him all. He had "all-weather" to collect wood for his stove. G.: "I have put the wood to dry before the fire. The fire came through a flame. "
That will hardly believe him, the court - the stove was apparently not in operation. Judge Udo Buhren: "There was an unburnt cigarette in the oven."
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