The pictures from November 2020 can still be remembered today: The student Lina E. climbs out of a police helicopter in handcuffs and is brought before the magistrate in Karlsruhe. She is accused of being the leader of a criminal organization. She has now been in court for a year and a half and this week her defense delivered her plea. Impressions of Iris Mayer, who reported from the courtroom for the SZ.
Mayer experienced a woman “with a lot of supporters, with family, with friends who were there.” And that despite “really very, very strict security regulations: Every visitor, every reporter who goes in there is meticulously checked, has to take off their shoes, everything is x-rayed. And a helicopter is circling over the building.” The federal prosecutor’s office is demanding eight years in prison for Lina E. “In their pleading, the defense attorneys asserted above all that the federal prosecutor’s office evaluated every piece of evidence against the accused,” said Mayer.
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You can find Iris Mayer’s report from the court, in which she describes the kissing hands and heart gestures, here.
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