Teen apologises for murder in Munich S-Bahn

One of the teens involved in the brutal beating death of a 50-year-old man at a Munich S-Bahn stop on over the weekend has asked for the family's forgiveness, daily tz reported on Tuesday.

"He regrets the act deeply and cannot explain how it could come to such a black-out," the lawyer of 18-year-old Markus S. told the Munich-based paper on his behalf.

Meanwhile his 17-year-old accomplice Sebastian L.'s lawyer said his client also expressed remorse for beating the man to death.

"I didn't want him to die," he told his lawyer.

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seems to me the train conductors could have taken more responsibility and helped protect the kids or the man. I do not buy their apology. Hard guys on the train and after the fact theya re sorry . they should rot in jail as adults. Typical Bavarian white trash!

I agree they should rot in jail. I think Germany should remeber this when discussing how to deal with "child" offenders (as I beieve both will be considered). As for "Bavarian white trash"´- people like this exist in just about every major town in every major country - so I'm not sure the generalisation is accurate.

"Typical Bavarian white trash" - well, well. I am not a fan of generalisation! Don't forget that things like that can happen anywhere anytime.
Sure, they do have to be prosecuted suitably.
I just cannot understand that you have to face your own death when you just want to help others that way.

man these gimps blew out and gave up on life, they had their chance so i say spend the $1.25 on a bullet and finish the job eh jail is far to expensive to keep people like this in, it costs more to keep these people in jail than som elaw abiding people earn.

Â"Especially disturbing about the incident is that the man did everything right,Â"
Huh. I guess I have a different definition of "doing everything right".
As a rule of thumb, it doesn't include confronting deranged & violent psychopaths or breaking up fights.

What a bunch of shiheads, sure I didn't mean for him to die, just after 22 blows I expected him just to you know just have a few lumps.
Since European countries have light sentences they wil get 1 month in jail and counseling to help them re-adjust to the cruel world of German justice.

luckily, both murderers are germans.. nope... it's germany anyway.. if the two murderers were turkish than it would have been a national wide headline. funny.. funny.. funny...yeahh...

Oh, WELL, then. If they apologize, then that's fine. Guess we can just move on and drop the charges now.

You don't follow such trials much, judging by your response. In Munich the kids got 8.5 and 12 years for attempted murder, in Nuremberg the kid got 5 years for attempted manslaughter. Thing is, with these guys it's not a question of re-adjusting, it's the problem that they have to be socialized in the first place.

In the present case, the guy died. The attack was unexpected and of base motives, the kids were willing to accept that the victim could die. No way they'll get convicted of manslaughter.
*I hope I don't have to eat my words a year from now*

Says the man who does not list his/her nationality.

I am amazed this happened in the leafy geriatric suburb Solln of all places. I thought the only danger there was to be bored to death.

And it isn't now??

In Munich the kids (with immigrant background) got 8.5 and 12 years for injuring a retiree (It was a national big news).
In Achen, a german guy KILLED a chinese girl by pushing her into railway, he has got 10 years of jail (no report in major newspaper).
Can you see the difference between these two cases.
what lecturenotes2009 said is 100% right.

Sure, only Spiegel, Stern, Welt, Zeit, FAZ, Sueddeutsche, etc. reported about that. Hardy major newspapers