A court in Germany sentenced a man to life imprisonment almost twenty years after the violent death of an 8-year-old girl. According to the judges, the now 42-year-old Rick J. had kidnapped the girl Johanna in September 1999 in the federal state of Hesse and tried to rape her. Her body was found in a forest more than half a year later.
A man was sentenced to seven years in prison by the federal court in Karlsruhe, because he had persuaded a woman with suicidal tendencies to let him hang him. The man had made an appointment with the woman at the Giessen station, but he could be arrested there before he killed his victim.
A 28-year-old German military who, according to justice, had plans to commit a terrorist attack, has appeared as a Syrian asylum seeker.
The German authorities have arrested an alleged Syrian war criminal. He is believed to have killed 36 suspected people in his homeland. Notified by the German federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe on Thursday.
