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Added on the 07/10/2021 12:21:17 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A German court hands a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. IMAGES of the accused arriving in the Court Room
Christian Brueckner, the German man suspected of abducting missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, appears in public for the first time since being named in her case, arriving at a court in Braunschweig for the start of his trial on unrelated sex crime charges. German prosecutors have yet to charge Brueckner over Madeleine's disappearance, but in October 2022 he was charged with five separate counts of rape and child sex abuse allegedly committed in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared, between 2000 and 2017. IMAGES
Images of the Greek appeals court in Athens as the court hands a 13-year prison sentence to the leader of neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn for running a criminal organisation. As well as Nikos Michaloliakos, the party's founder -- who received an additional one year for illegal possession of a weapon -- the court has also sentenced five former members of his inner circle to prison terms. IMAGES
The first hearing in what is likely to be a grinding, years-long trial begins in Germany, in a case pitting hundreds of thousands of owners of manipulated diesel cars demanding compensation from the German car behemoth Volkswagen. IMAGES of the start of the trial
Former nurse Niels Hoegel, accused of killing more than 100 patients in his care, goes on trial in the biggest serial killing trial in Germany's post-war history. Hoegel, 41, has already spent nearly a decade in prison for other patient deaths, and is accused of intentionally administering medical overdoses to victims so he could bring them back to life at the last moment. IMAGES