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Breno, still in jail, gets Sao Paolo offer

Breno, the Brazilian Bayern München defender who now lives in a Bavarian jail cell after being sentenced to three years and nine months for setting fire to his rented villa, has received an offer to play for his old team in Brazil.

Published: 22 December 2012 10:58 CET
Breno, still in jail, gets Sao Paolo offer
Photo: DPA

The Münchener Merkur reported that Sao Paolo has made Breno an offer, but Steffen Ufer, Breno’s German attorney, said his client hasn’t signed anything and that to do so would be counter productive.

He said his client will first accept offers “when everything in Germany is taken care of.” Ufer is appealing Breno’s sentence and has contested the football star’s imprisionment terms.

“The judges in Munich handed down a very severe sentence,” Ufer said, adding that he hoped more mercy would be shown on appeal.

He’s also trying to get the court to agree to allow Breno out of jail during the day so he can train. The manager at 1. FC Nürnberg said if Breno were let out during the day he could train with his team.

Attorney Ufer repeated that his client has no intention of fleeing Germany and recognizes the need to fulfill the German requirements of his release. Breno’s wife Renata backed that.

“He’ll go there once everything in Germany is dealt with,” she said.

The Local/mw

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CRIME

Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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