Tag: crimes
Josef Schütz, the oldest accused of Nazi crimes, sentenced to five years in prison
The historic trial of the oldest accused of Nazi crimes ended on Tuesday in Germany. Josef Schütz, a 101-year-old former concentration camp guard, was sentenced to 5 years in prison…
Nazi crimes: why judgments still make sense today
Status: 06/28/2022 04:29 am The verdict against a suspected former concentration camp guard is to be announced today in the Neuruppin district court. Why the legal review comes so late…
War against Ukraine: BKA: Hundreds of leads to war crimes
Status: 06/18/2022 3:53 p.m The Federal Criminal Police Office is investigating evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The perpetrators and those responsible are being investigated. According to the principle…
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: More extremist crimes in Germany
Status: 07.06.2022 12:16 p.m Last year, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution registered 33,476 politically motivated crimes – that’s a good 500 more than in the previous year.…
Nuclear threat, war crimes, refugees… A look back at 100 days of conflict
Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine had many consequences, whether military, diplomatic, economic or legal. One hundred days after the start of the offensive, the earthquake of the invasion continues…
Appeal rejected for Harvey Weinstein after his conviction for sex crimes
Disgraced Hollywood movie producer, ex-almighty Harvey Weinstein, whose sex crimes sparked the #MeToo movement in 2017, had his appeal dismissed on Thursday after his 2020 conviction in New York for…
War crimes in Ukraine: investigations into more than 15,000 cases
Status: 05/31/2022 5:58 p.m According to Attorney General Venediktova, the Ukrainian judiciary has received around 15,000 cases of suspected war crimes nationwide. Two other Russian soldiers have recently been sentenced…
Reports of hate crimes: investigations against police officers after the Böhmermann broadcast
Status: 05/28/2022 7:50 p.m The Internet is not a legal vacuum, but there are evidently deficits in criminal prosecution in Germany. An action by the “ZDF Magazin Royal” has now…
Russian soldier jailed in Kyiv for war crimes
It is a judgment that has not only legal effect. After the murders, executions and rapes in Bucha, Irpin and other Ukrainian cities whose names have become synonymous with horror,…
Bavaria: More and more crimes against local politicians – Bavaria
The Greens in the state parliament are complaining about a massive increase in crimes against local politicians in Bavaria. They refer to the Interior Ministry’s responses to parliamentary questions. According…