Salman E. threatened to blow himself up with his daughter, and now the hostage-taker at Hamburg airport has to go to prison for twelve years. Things are getting loud again in court.
Salman E. is determined to have the first word in the verdict. While visitors and trial observers are still standing, he begins to read out a statement. He is upset, his words are tumbling over each other and are barely understandable. The core of the tirade is that he only did it for his daughter. But Torsten Schwarz, presiding judge at the Hamburg district court, calls the defendant to order: “We haven’t even started yet!”