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BERLIN (Reuter) - Four Germans were sentenced to terms in juvenile jail for assaulting two Nigerian men in eastern Wittenberge, Germany. A Potsdam district court sentenced the main defendant, a 21-year-old, to six-and-a-half years in juvenile prison after finding him guilty of attempted manslaughter and serious breach of peace.

The other defendants, aged from 20 to 21, were given juvenile jail terms from two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half years for serious breach of peace and as accomplices.