BERLIN (AFP)---A court sentenced four young Germans linked to the far-right scene to juvenile terms Tuesday for a racist arson attack against an apartment building housing predominantly immigrant families.
The regional court in the southern city of Nuremberg convicted the defendants, aged between 17 and 19, of attempted murder and attempted aggravated arson for hurling firebombs at the building in the town of Bad Winsheim.
The three men and one woman were handed juvenile terms of between three years and five years, 10 months.
The court found that they had chosen the building for the October 2006 attack "because there were several foreign-sounding names on the doorbells."
Residents were able to put out the fire quickly and no one was injured.
Two of the defendants were also convicted of disturbing the peace of the dead for vandalizing a Jewish cemetery in February 2007, overturning 63 gravestones and damaging 11.
The 18-year-old youth was also found guilty of slicing the brake line on his stepfather's car to cause an accident. The intended victim, however, noticed the damage in time.
