"Speech dysfunction" and other stuff like that is the favorite laywer's tactic to dramatize a injury.
After spending some time at court you start to think that no one ever fully recovers from any injury without severe disabilities.
I only read about the case because the defense laywer of the Neo Nazi was a left winger herself and she was severely criticized by her fellow left wing jurists for defending a "evil" man who hurt one of their own.
Seems she was successful and fortunately civil rights like self defense and in dubio pro reo are not depending on political orientation.
Sorry, I'm just not all into political correctness.
Ive seen a good collection of both in my short time in Germany, theres not much difference, there are a few more roid heads on the right wing but thats of no real consequence, they even wear similar clothes, and theres no difference in the level of violence each will perpetrate against innocents and each other alike, let alone when they target the Police, who do an outstanding job trying to keep these backwards retarded "Elitists" from hurting themselves or innocent people.
That said I understand why the court let the bloke off as it could be reasonably assumed he was in effect attempting to escape. From the precedences set in the past, a left wing mob is just as violent and deadly as a right wing mob. they arent going to hold hands and sing protest songs around your vehicle, as is too many peoples "romantic" portrayal of Left Wing actionists. Couple of months back some attempted to BBQ two police officers in their vehicle. Got no love for either side.
Ack that, I see Thor Steinar wearing types all the time in my neighbourhood, I get left alone but thats probably because I am more Nordic and bigger than most of them. Got no love for them or the Left Wing Radicals. And I am not suprised she felt some reprocussions from this because she didnt tow the seemingly German line of "Bash the Nazi at all costs". Yes, he deserves a kick in the teeth for his irresponsible acts and life choices, but she did what she saw was the right thing by interpreting the law. Sadly Germans seem willing to turn a blind eye to the left on many occasions, or dismiss the lethality of their bombing campaigns and attacks on establishment. Just my observations
Sometimes reading a thread like this about the left and right wing extreme politics in Germany kills a little piece inside of me. It makes the English Defence League and the opposing leftist cohorts here look like a bunch of amateurs. The Law is the Law regardless of political orientation, and good on the lawyer for acknowledging this fact when defending the neo-Nazi dunderhead.
I've got one question to ask - why is there such a huge polarity in Germany in both extreme left and extreme right wing parties? And are such parties large and growing or decreasing in number or what?
Right-leaning politics are obviously a delicate issue in Germany.
Moreover the political spectrum of this country fosters tensions between its respective ends, as the left branch is continuous and without interruption while on the other hand there is no party to fill the ("still democratic") gap between the center-right and the extreme right.
The very existence of such a link between the democratic center-left and the extreme left, along with the "inherent wickedness" of everything "right-leaning", provides radical leftists with a certain moral authority they need to look less dangerous. Additionally they have a different foe image that is in a subtle way more "agreeable" for a tendentially left-leaning and pacifist society and makes their violence less visual.
In the 1990s Neo-Nazis were a tremendous danger and got a lot of blood on their hands while the extreme left posed a grave threat in the two decades before that. Since 2007 and the riots surrounding the G8 summit in Germany, leftist violence has been on the rise again and surpassing the number of Neo-Nazi crimes as of late.
There is only one Neo-Nazi party in Germany now ("National Democrats"), and while it has some seats in a few regional parliaments, it is rather irrelevant on national level with only about 7000 members. The violent left again is split up between the youth organisation of "The Left" (the aforementioned leftist "gap filler" party) and a larger camp that doesn't seek party participation.
All in all, we're talking about maybe 50,000 people here (stable trend).