Sentencing for urban explosion: balancing criminal energy against reintegration from criminal milieu

The Federal Court of Justice (6th Criminal Senate) dismissed the defendant's revision as unfounded, upholding the conviction and sentencing of the Landgericht Würzburg and ordering the appellant to bear the costs of the legal proceedings. The dispute concerned the appropriateness of the sentence, with the defendant challenging the court's failure to sufficiently credit his motivation to distance himself from the criminal milieu as a mitigating factor. The appellate court held that the original sentencing withstood review, finding that the lower court had properly balanced the defendant's willingness to leave the criminal environment against aggravating factors, specifically his criminal energy and the abstract danger posed by the detonation of explosives in a populated urban area. The decision also affirmed that numerous prior foreign convictions had not yet reached the stage of statutory deletion, thereby legally permitting their consideration in the sentencing calculation.