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France

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam appears in court

Key suspect in November’s Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam has appeared at the main law courts in the French capital.

20/05/2016

France

Former Rwandan mayors go on trial in France for 1994 genocide

More than 100 victims, relatives and witnesses are expected to testify in the trial being conducted under a special UN law created to pursue genocide suspects in France.

10/05/2016

Israel

Israeli soldier goes on trial for killing wounded Palestinian attacker

The trial of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter for killing a wounded Palestinian attacker has opened. Sergeant Elor Azaria denies using

09/05/2016

Belgium

Trial of alleged extremist cell opens in Belgium

Seven stand trial on charges including attempted murder and organising or belonging to a terrorist cell in Verviers.

09/05/2016

Turkey

Turkish journalists sentenced for revealing state secrets

Prominent Turkish opposition journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul have been sentenced to five years and ten months and five years respectively for

06/05/2016

Germany

Cologne attacks: Algerian man acquitted of attempted sexual assault

A Cologne court has acquitted a 26-year-old Algerian man of a charge of attempted sexual assault on a woman during the German city’s New Year’s

06/05/2016

France

Jail term upheld for faulty breast implants company boss

The founder of a company that made faulty breast implants has had a four-year jail sentence upheld by a French appeals court. Jean-Claude Mas, 76

02/05/2016

Germany

Former Auschwitz guard apologises to Holocaust victims

A former Auschwitz guard on trial in Germany has apologised in court to victims. He told them he regretted being part of a criminal organisation that

30/04/2016

Italy

Costa Concordia captain appeal begins

Francesco Schettino wants his conviction overturned

28/04/2016

France

Paris attacks suspect Abdelslam at high-security Paris prison

Key suspect in the Paris Attacks, Salah Abdelslam, has spent his first night at Europe’s biggest prison. He will be kept in solitary confinement at

28/04/2016

Germany

Neo-Nazis on trial in Munich for asylum seeker nail bomb plot

Four far-right extremists have gone on trial in Munich, charged with planning an attack on an asylum seekers centre.

27/04/2016

World News

'Hillsborough' relatives call for police resignations

Hillsborough verdict – “victims unlawfully killed” Police failings were to blame Relatives call for senior officers to quit Criminal prosecutions

27/04/2016

United Kingdom

Hillsborough inquest jury says 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed

An inquest into Britain’s worst sporting disaster has ruled that police failures were to blame for the “unlawful killing” of 96 Liverpool football

26/04/2016

France

Dutch "horror dentist" jailed for mutilating many mouths in France

A Dutchman known as the “horror dentist” for mutilating the mouths of more than 100 patients has been sentenced to eight years in France. Jacobus

26/04/2016

Luxembourg

Tax leaks trial begins in Luxembourg

The trial has begun of a French journalist and two former staff of accountancy firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers who are accused of leaking details of

26/04/2016

Europe News

Whistleblowers "essential for democracy" says LuxLeaks lawyer

Antoine Deltour is the man at the heart of one of the biggest scandals of the last few years. He is going on trial in Luxembourg accused of having

26/04/2016

Turkey

Turkey: Protests over 'freedom of speech' trials

Demonstrators in Turkey have denounced two ‘freedom of speech’ cases being heard at the same court in Istanbul on Friday. They gathered outside the

22/04/2016

World News

Co-founder of anti-Islam PEGIDA appears in court on charges of inciting hatred

Lutz Bachmann, co-founder of Germany’s anti-Islam PEGIDA movement has appeared in court on charges of inciting hatred against migrants. Prosecutors

19/04/2016

France

Paris: Seven Somali men go on trial over fatal yacht hijacking

Seven Somali men have gone before a court in Paris, accused of hijacking a French yacht in the Arabian Sea four years ago. Owner Christian Colombo

30/03/2016

Ukraine

Confusion over trial of Ukrainian pilot

Nadia Savchenko's case has been heard by a Russian court

21/03/2016