Zossen district court
has sentenced a 49 year old man to 8 months of jail for blinding a helicopter with a laser.
The police helicopter was on a mission to investigate reports on laser attacks made by airliners approaching SXF when its crew suffered the same attack from an apartment block. The attacker could not be convicted of having performed the previous attacks and consequently only received a sentence for attacking the helicopter. No parole is possible and the perpetrator will serve his 8 months as soon as the case is closed.
IŽd say it is a good start to see also the German courts take a harder stance on such actions, although I personally would have liked to see him go down for attempted murder. Let everyone else who might contemplate such an attack behold and consider this...