October 18, 2018 - 8:28 AM
BERLIN - German prosecutors have filed charges against two Afghan teenagers over a dispute with a 22-year-old man in an eastern town who then died of a heart attack.
German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the 17-year-old and 18-year-old were charged with bodily harm resulting in death.
Authorities have said the man who died had severe chronic heart disease and that an autopsy showed he suffered a heart attack after being punched in the face.
He apparently tried to intervene in an argument between the suspects on Sept. 10. There were protests involving far-right groups after he died.
The incident in Koethen followed the anti-foreigner violence that arose in Chemnitz arose after the fatal stabbing of a German man and the identification of migrants as suspects.
News from © The Associated Press, 2018