Who asks, expects answers. At least, most of the time. But not on Wednesday, not in the Wirecard process. A lot is asked that day, hundreds of questions to the key witnesses are read out in the courtroom for hours. His reaction: silence, even for hours. The bizarre thing about it: everyone involved had already agreed in advance that it would work exactly like this.The day is a compromise. Markus Födisch, the presiding judge in the Wirecard trial, mediated him...
Mother Mechthild Thürmer now has to answer in court because of the granting of church asylum. The district court of Bamberg scheduled the hearing for February 28, her lawyer Franz Bethäuser told the Catholic News Agency on Tuesday. The abbess of the Benedictine monastery in Kirchschletten in the district of Bamberg is accused of aiding and abetting illegal residence.The trial against mother Mechthild, 64, was supposed to take place in the summer of 2020, but was then canceled at short...
justice After the death drive from Berlin's Ku'damm, the process begins At the beginning of June 2022, the police and emergency services will secure the area after the death drive on Kurfürstendamm. photo © Fabian Sommer/dpa The area between the Memorial Church and the luxury department store KaDeWe in Berlin becomes the scene of a terrible scene. A car crashes into groups of pedestrians. Now comes the process. Almost exactly eight months to the day after the death drive on...
crime Trial of triple murder - high youth sentences demanded One of two men (r) accused of murder is led into the high-security courtroom of the Munich II Regional Court before the start of the hearing. photo © Sven Hoppe/dpa In juvenile criminal law, a maximum sentence of ten years is customary, even for murder. In the case of the triple murder in Starnberg, however, the prosecutor apparently sees a particular degree of guilt. In the trial of a triple...
At the beginning of a murder trial, a 76-year-old pensioner admitted to having suffocated his wife in her sleep at the Nuremberg-Fürth district court. According to the indictment, the man is said to have taken the breath of the then 74-year-old with a pillow in June last year. The man then tried to kill himself. According to a court spokeswoman, the man had already written a suicide note.The possibility of a joint death was a topic of conversation between the...
theft Defendant in the Green Vault trial: No commissioned crime Six men are on trial for the spectacular burglary at the State Museum in which 18th-century jewels were stolen. photo © Jens Schlueter/AFP/POOL/dpa The art theft from Saxony's Treasury Museum is considered one of the most spectacular in Germany. But there was no specific client, says one of the defendants. According to a defendant, there was no customer for the theft of jewels from the historic green vault. The saleability...
Nearly $13 million was transferred into Alameda Research's collective wallet in just 24 hours, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. reveal on February 2 #PeckShieldAlert ～$13M worth of cryptos have been transferred to Alameda consolidation-labeled address, including ~6M $USDT & 1,545 $ETH ($2.5M) from Bitfinex, ~4.6M $USDC from 0x7889Wondering why Bitfinex transferred ~$8.5M worth of cryptos to Alameda consolidation address pic.twitter.com/YU8RNCrdxs— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) February 2, 2023 The wallet address received $6 million in Tether and $2.5 million in Ether from...
Prosecutor: "It has nothing to do with enlightenment" So far, the prosecutor criticizes that their statements have not fulfilled as much as announced in the deal. In the confessions, the involvement in the crime is spread over several shoulders in order to mitigate the penalties. "It has nothing to do with education," said Kohle. Even if the statements should be correct, the search is still on for two unknown perpetrators and for stolen art treasures worth more than 63 million...
The crucial tip came from an anonymous caller: On March 8 last year, the stranger informed the police that things were not going right at a corona test station on Karl-Lederer-Platz in Geretsried. At best, 30 to 40 tests would be carried out there every day. In fact, the operators of the test station billed a “significantly higher number” of tests to the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB), the anonymous person claimed, said a criminal investigator on...
process 18-year-old raped: prison sentence for brother The accused has been sentenced to imprisonment. photo © Silas Stein/dpa For months, a young woman was beaten in a room in a shared flat in Konstanz and finally raped several times. The culprit is her older brother. Now he has been sentenced to prison. For her it was pure torture: In his shared room, a 21-year-old beat his younger sister for months and finally forced her to commit incest. The Constance Regional...
