How big was the damage that Udo Foht did to Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk? Eleven years after the scandal surrounding the broadcaster's former head of entertainment became known, a trial at the Leipzig Regional Court is trying to clear up the case. The 72-year-old is accused of fraud, breach of trust, bribery and tax evasion. On Friday, Karola Wille, the director of MDR, testified against Foht - and for the first time publicly quantified the amount of damages that the broadcaster is...
crime Attack on the university in Hamm: the suspect testifies later At the beginning of the trial in the district court of Dortmund, the accused sits next to his defense attorney Ina Klimke in the courtroom. photo © Dieter Menne/dpa An apparently mentally ill man randomly stabs people at a university. Four people are injured - one woman so badly that she dies. The alleged perpetrator is now before the court. A 30-year-old died and three other people were injured,...
IAgain and again the survivors and their lawyers asked the accused to speak. Had asked for words of regret at the unimaginable horror. Had referred to the historical importance of this trial, which may be the last of its kind, and called on the defendant to use the time she has left. So that everyone else understood the unimaginable. But the defendant remained silent. Julian Staib Political correspondent for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland based in Wiesbaden. Only at the very...
The witness comes into the state parliament with a cap pulled low over his forehead and a corona mask, he tries to turn away from the waiting photographers. The NSU investigative committee invited Tino Brandt on Thursday - who played a key role in the right-wing extremist scene in Thuringia in particular, but also in Bavaria in the 1990s. Brandt was considered a leading figure in the scene and drove the establishment of the group "Thüringer Heimatschutz", in which Uwe...
The witness comes into the state parliament with a cap pulled low over his forehead and a corona mask, he tries to turn away from the waiting photographers. The NSU investigative committee invited Tino Brandt on Thursday - who played a key role in the right-wing extremist scene in Thuringia in particular, but also in Bavaria in the 1990s. Brandt was considered a leading figure in the scene and drove the establishment of the group "Thüringer Heimatschutz", in which Uwe...
Since last week, the floor has no longer been for the prosecution but for the defense in the trial of Benjamin Mendy, accused of seven rapes, attempted rape and sexual assault against seven women. After the answers given by the footballer himself, the Chester Crown Court heard on Monday the testimony of the coach of the Citizens, Pep Guardiola.Arrived at the beginning of the afternoon at the court, the Catalan coach spoke for about fifty minutes. He portrayed a player...
A 38-year-old is said to have killed his mother and injured his brother when he set fire to their home. On the last day of the hearing of evidence, a psychiatrist and the accused's brother testified about the night of the crime - but there was a gap. Rottweil District Court, session room 201: "Are there any questions for the witnesses?" Asks the judge. "We heard very one-sided descriptions," says the accused Dennis B. before the judge interrupts him. "You...
murder case Lübcke's murderer testifies as a witness in the investigative committee For security reasons, Stephan Ernst is not questioned in the state parliament building, but in the Wiesbaden district court. photo © Boris Roessler/dpa-Pool/dpa In 2021, Stephan Ernst was sentenced to life imprisonment as the murderer of Walter Lübcke. Now he is to be questioned as a witness in the Lübcke investigative committee - but not in the state parliament itself. The convicted murderer of the former Kassel district...
While the father and his accomplices, accused of having beaten up a 16-year-old teenager suspected of having sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl in Roanne (Loire), appear in court this Thursday, October 27, Boulanouar, friend and neighbor of the father who participated in the beating, says he has “remorse but no regrets”. Accused of beating up a 16-year-old boy suspected of having sexually assaulted Roanne (Loire) his 6-year-old daughter, a father and his three accomplices are summoned this Thursday to the...
Status: 25.10.2022 4:10 a.m The investigative committee of the Bavarian state parliament focuses on the so-called flashlight attack by the NSU in 1999. For this, the committee invited the then victim Mehmet O. By Eva Frisch and Jonas Miller, BR Mehmet O. has been waiting for this day for 23 years: for the first time he can testify publicly and tell how the bomb attack changed his life forever. The 42-year-old is the first victim of the NSU. When he...
