419 years – as long as the American neo-Nazi James Fields after a Jury verdict in prison. He was raced in Charlottesville with his car into a group of protesters and had killed a woman.

the verdict of the jury is clear. The Defendant, James A. Fields, Jr. for the murder of a 32-year-old protester in Charlottesville to prison for life. In addition, he is convicted of premeditated assault, and failure to provide assistance to other 419 years in prison and a fine in the amount of 480,000 U.S. dollars.

A judge must approve the sentence. In addition, you must answer Fields in the coming year, before a Federal court. The assassination of Charlottesville is classified in the USA as a politically motivated act. Headlines had made the case also because US President, Donald Trump had not condemned the violence of radical Right-wing clearly. Instead, he had spoken of the “good people on both sides”.

Susan Bro, the mother of the murdered Heather Heyer, who attended the process.

With his car raced Fields in 2017 in the crowd.

come to A Dead, numerous injured

Fields in August 2017, in a March of nationalists and neo-Nazis to Charlottesville. You were against protesters in the way. When the police broke up the violent and chaotic Situation, drove Fields with his car in the lot. He murdered the College student Heather Heyer, and many of the injured demonstrators.

During the process about bone fractures and trauma reported in tables consequences of the assassination, many of which have not recovered. According to a report in the “Washington Post” were, in some cases, the medical bills of the victims is so high, that they were not taken over by health insurance. The cost burden in the future.

assassin of Charlottesville: judgment for life plus 419 years
Torsten Teichmann, ARD Washington
11.12.2018 20:03 PM

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