Avery Daye
@AveryDaye
In Germany, a 29-year-old Afghan stabbed a 27-year-old woman walking home from work in daylight. He was given a reduced sentence because he only stabbed her 6 times.
The key reason for this reduction was the legal concept of voluntary withdrawal (freiwilliger Rücktritt vom versuchten Mord), which applies when a perpetrator abandons a criminal act that could lead to death and takes steps to prevent the outcome. The judges ruled that by stopping after the sixth stab—prompted by the victim's scream—and fleeing, the attacker had genuinely withdrawn from completing a murder attempt, as he could have continued but chose not to.
A government against its people.