German PhD student pleads not guilty.

"Shame on you!" Chinese students were outraged when the German student Martin J. his shoe on their Premier Wen Jiabao accused. Now the shoe thrower in Cambridge before the court. The candidate of the elite university said he had not disrupted public order.

 

It should be a political statement, it now brought the young man to court. In a speech to the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at the University of Cambridge grabbed the German Martin J. Turnschuh his left and threw him in the direction of the prime minister on the stage. Wen He failed by about one meter, eyewitness reports, the throw was a respectable performance, because the distance is great and the angle was quite acute.

When Voranhörung before the court stressed the 27-year-old Ph.D. student of pathology on Tuesday that he was "not guilty". The indictment accuses him public nuisance, insults and call for violence before. In the case of a conviction threatens the young man up to six months imprisonment and a fine of around 5700 euros. Until the process on 10 March of the young man remains free, but let me until the end of the procedure does not speak with the press.

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So loud, he had in early February in the lecture hall during the speech of Chinese Premier Wen said: "How can the university for this dictator prostitute? How can you listen to the lies that he tells? Stand up and protested," the candidate had before throwing his shoe called.

A video on youtube shows how in the darkened auditorium of the shoe landed on the stage. Some of the accent after Chinese students jumped her verbal head of government to the side, and cried out to the pitcher, he should be ashamed. Under "Shame on you" Call was Martin J. unresistingly by the police arrest them.

From China, it was initially, Wen Jiabao condemn the attack as "despicable conduct". Meanwhile, the student, however, officially at the Chinese Embassy for the Litter apologized.

In a letter to the Chinese Embassy in London, the blogs ONLINE exists, he wrote: "I ask you, my apology to the Chinese people and to the Prime Minister that I found his speech at the University of Cambridge was interrupted, accept. I is clear that I do not need the respect and kindness showed to a guest of the University are entitled. Let me assure you that it was not my intention, the Chinese people to insult. "

The letter was on behalf of the university doctoral sent to the embassy. That leads some observers to suspect, the young man had the line at the urging of his faculty written. Upon receipt of the letter on Monday, China's Premier Wen had officially
to bear with the student asked.

"Training is the best help for young people," Wen was on the Chinese Embassy in London made. It was hoped that the university the young man continued to study leave.

Inspiration for the shoe throwing the student was probably a similar attack on the former U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year. The Fersehjournalist who threw the shoe, sits in custody since December. Another Trtittbrettfahrer recently attacked the Israeli ambassador in Stockholm with a thrown shoe.