Tokens: For
the
majority
,
the
fact
that
a
19
-
year
-
old
first
offender
is
still
imprisoned
today
,
having
completed
the
service
of
his
penalty
on
17
July
2008
,
seems
not
much
of
a
sacrifice
.
Nor
are
they
much
impressed
by
the
circumstance
that
the
applicant
was
35
years
old
at
the
time
of
the
preventive
detention
order
and
that
therefore
this
potentially
life
-
long
imprisonment
could
be
longer
than
for
other
offenders
under
the
same
kind
of
detention
.
But
this
is
nothing
new
:
the
Constitutional
Court
itself
confessed
,
in
the
applicant
’s
own
constitutional
appeal
,
that
preventive
detention
was
an
“
extremely
serious
”
(
äußerst
schwerwiegend
)
encroachment
upon
the
fundamental
right
to
liberty
which
imposed
on
those
targeted
a
“
special
sacrifice
”
(
Sonderopfer
)
[
331
]
in
the
interests
of
the
community
.
Indeed
,
the
applicant
has
been
under
retrospective
preventive
detention
(
and
previously
under
provisional
preventive
detention
)
for
ten
years
now
as
a
“
scapegoat
”
to
quench
the
punitive
needs
of
the
community
.
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