The 9-month trial of a former guard at the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen has ended. The 101-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison. Justice was done after 77 years. Josef Schutz became the oldest Nazi criminal ever tried for complicity in war atrocities during World War II. This difficult process lasted nine months. […]
The medical staff who provided care before the death of Diego Maradona will face trial on charges of negligence that led to the death of the legendary football player. He died of a heart attack at the age of 60, in November 2020, while at his home in Buenos Aires. The court accuses eight medical […]
The Greek state is suing Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical giant Novartis for 214 million euros, Health Minister Thanos Plevris said Friday. The statement said the state is seeking compensation for non-pecuniary damage it has suffered “as a result of actions that Novartis itself has admitted to in the US relating to payments to physicians.” “The Greek […]
After a year-and-a-half trial, a court in Athens acquitted 13 of the 21 accused in the deadly flash floods in Mandra (western Attica) in November 2017 that killed 24 people. Pictured is Rena Duru, former Governor of Attica A three-member criminal court acquitted the former governor of the region Renu Duru (SYRIZA) and twelve others, […]
Two former SYRIZA ministers and three prosecutors will stand trial in two separate cases related to television licenses and the Novartis scandal, respectively. Former Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media Nikos Pappas will be subpoenaed by a special court to be convened in the fall to consider a tender for a 2016 television license, […]
The family of Brahim Saaudun, convicted in the DPR, declared that he had Ukrainian citizenship. This was reported Reuters his father is Tahar Saaudun. He said that his son received Ukrainian citizenship back in 2020, after completing a year of military training at Kiev University to study aerospace technologies. Saaudun noted that his son surrendered […]
The head of the DPR, Pushilin, denies that there are any prerequisites for the abolition of the death sentence for foreigners – Aiden Aslin, Saadun Brahim and Sean Pinner. He told reporters that there were no grounds for pardoning two British citizens and one Moroccan who were sentenced to death by the DPR Supreme Court: […]
Trial over the downing of flight MH17 in July 2014 has ended in the Netherlands. Today was the last day of the mh17 trial. The verdict is due in November or December 2022. The point of view of the prosecutors is read and seen here: https://t.co/HBs875P6tg (English and Dutch) #MH17criminalfiles #mh17 pic.twitter.com/I4fHWZYqct — JIT MH17 […]
Britons sentenced to death in the DPR are not combatants and are not entitled to prisoner of war status under international humanitarian law, said Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry. OHCHR condemned the verdict. Zakharova’s commentary, which was published on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation […]