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Germany

Life sentence for German driver who killed six in car-ramming attack

Prosecutors said Bernd Weimann tried to kill as many people as possible when he drove his SUV at high speed into a pedestrian zone in December 2020.

16/08/2022

The Cube

Paris attacks trial: Will Salah Abdeslam ever be released from prison?

Social media users had expressed concern that Salah Abdeslam could be released after 30 years due to a provision claiming this is an option. But is it possible to ask for parole during the incompressible life sentence?

30/06/2022

Netherlands

Dutch mobster sentenced to life in prison over contract killings

Willem Holleeder -- nicknamed “The Nose” -- will now spend the rest of his life behind bars.

24/06/2022

United Kingdom

Man given 36-year sentence for murdering London teacher Sabina Nessa

The 36-year-old man had been found guilty of killing the 28-year-old teacher as she walked to meet a friend.

08/04/2022

France

Ex-soldier convicted of kidnap and murder of 8-year-old French girl

The killing sent shockwaves across France.

18/02/2022

Spain

German man given life sentence for murdering wife and son in Tenerife

The bodies of a German woman and child had been found "stoned to death" in a cave on the Spanish island in 2019.

17/02/2022

Germany

German man given life sentence for driving into carnival crowd

No one was killed in the incident, but around 90 people were injured, including 20 who needed hospital treatment.

16/12/2021

Czech Republic

Czech arsonist sentenced to life in prison for 2020 apartment fire

Eleven people, including three children, died in the building in Bohumin last August.

30/11/2021

Sweden

Man convicted of stabbing several people in Sweden knife attack

A 22-year-old Afghan refugee has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing and injuring several people in Vetlanda in March.

14/07/2021

Germany

Man convicted of deadly homophobic attack on couple in Dresden

A Syrian national has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing two gay men in Dresden last year, killing one and seriously injuring his partner in an attack that prosecutors said was motivated by anti-LGBT Islamic extremist beliefs.

21/05/2021

Turkey

Dozens handed life sentences over failed 2016 coup in Turkey

A total of 497 people have stood trial in Turkey since 2017 over the failed coup attempt.

07/04/2021

Turkey

Four accomplices of 2016 Istanbul bombing sentenced to life in prison

Four accomplices of 2016 Istanbul bombing that killed 13 people, including 12 German tourists, were sentenced to life in prison.

06/04/2021

Turkey

Turkey sentences five people over 2016 assassination of Russian envoy

A Turkish court has sentenced five people to life in prison over the assassination of Russia's ambassador in 2016.

09/03/2021

United Kingdom

Reading stabbings: Libyan sentenced to life for deadly UK park attack

Khairi Saadallah was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of parole for stabbing three male friends to death in an English park in June.

11/01/2021

France

Gunman behind foiled 2015 Thalys train attack gets life behind bars

The foiled attack came just three months before the deadly November 13 attacks in Paris.

17/12/2020

Turkey

Turkey sentences man to life in prison for 2017 nightclub attack

Turkey sentences man to life in prison for a 2017 nightclub attack, which killed 39 people in Istanbul.

07/09/2020