ZWICKAU - Two cooks from India who got into a knife fight with Pakistanis operating a pizza bar in a German tourist town have been jailed for manslaughter for 75 and 78 months. | I know when I'm looking for a good pizza place in Germany, I always think Pakistani |
The brawl that the German media later dubbed the 'war of the pizza cooks' erupted in January 2004 in Schneeberg, a pretty hill town close to the Czech border. After friction between rival pizza stands, the Pakistanis assaulted the Indians, who wanted to even the score.
| "They's only room fur one pizza place in dis here burg..." |
In the knife fight, two Pakistanis were stabbed to death near the town square and a third Pakistani was critically wounded.
| "The Showdown in Schneeberg, tonight on Pay-Per-View!" |
After the eight-month trial at a court in Zwickau, defence lawyers said they would appeal the convictions because their clients, aged 29 and 27, had acted purely in self-defence. | "Pure as the driven snow, your honor!" |
The court only recognised self-defence in one of the killings, and said the Indians had acted out of revenge after the initial assault by the Pakistanis had ceased. |