Shouting shoot me, shoot: Now he is in prison

A man's behavior led to a part of the Holbækmotorvejen in december last year was blocked off, and now he has a year in jail after he tried to get the police to shoot him. It tells the prosecutor in the case, Søren Provide Necks, to Ekstra Bladet.

The 35-year-old man, who has not previously judged, was on Monday convicted in the Court of Glostrup to have threatened the officers on the footbridge over the Vigerslev Allé in Lerum with a knife.

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Here he was heavily influenced by drugs, udadreagerende and suicidal at the time of the offence.

among other things He said to the ushers, who imprisoned both approaches to the bridge: 'If you do not do it properly, I will use the rest of my life to find you and your family' and 'shoot me, shoot me, it's you who have to shoot me?', while he walked towards the officers with the knife in her hand. He tried the words to get the officers to shoot him - also called 'suicide by cop'.

the Officers fired warning shots, and he pulled back both times, says Søren Provide Necks from Vestegnes prosecutors.

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The now convicted man has not been judged to be mentally ill, why did he receive an ordinary punishment. According to the prosecutor, it was a family affair, which put pressure on the man to do what he did.

In court he was remorseful of what had happened, says Søren Provide the Tack.

- So the substances had affected him so strongly, that it was come so far?

- Yes, it is my opinion.

in Addition to the threats the man was convicted of vandalism when he smashed the windshield of two police cars and scratched, just the one hood and roof.

- At one point he gets handed a betjents tjenestetelefon, so he can make a call, but the throw he in the ground, so he is also convicted for the hærværksforhold.

The incident got put a large deployment of police in time, where both a dealer and the police kampklædte ROMEO-patrol was on site.

the Man was also accused of setting fire to his and his wife's condo back in October, where no dog was hurt. He acknowledged all of the actually relationship.

- the Court relied partly on the weight that you have set fire to an apartment complex. It is serious enough in itself and is an aggravating circumstance, said prosecutor Søren Provide the Tack.

- Additionally, as are threats against the police of a serious nature. It is also why we are coming up to one year in jail. Some of it, I have put weight on in court, is that it is something of the worst that you can be exposed as a cop, when you are in a situation where you are forced to make shots or warning shots against the other. It makes you only because they feel in danger.