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A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history is handed a life sentence for murdering 85 patients in his care. The 42-year-old murdered patients selected at random with lethal injections between 2000 and 2005, when he was caught in the act. IMAGES
French serial killer Michel Fourniret's widow, Monique Olivier, arrives in the courtroom's dock to stand trial for complicity in the abduction and murder of little girl and two young women in northern France. Spanning three decades, the murders included a 9 year old girl on her way back from school, a mentally disabled 18 year old and a 20 year olf British woman whose body was found in a river in 1990. Fourniret, known as the "ogre of the Ardennes", was charged with abduction, rape and murder in the cases but died in 2021, aged 79, before he could be brought to trial. IMAGES
The Josef Hospital in Delmenhorst is in the center of a media storm after German authorities arrested a former nurse who worked at the facility, 40-year-old Niels Hoegel, who is currently suspected of killing at least 84 patients of this facility and a different one in the town of Oldenburg between 1999 and 2005 by pumping them full of deadly drugs which stopped their heart.
Images at the start of the trial against Bjorn Hoecke, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia, who appears in court for publicly using a banned Nazi slogan. He stands accused of twice using the phrase "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany"), once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. IMAGES
Christian Brueckner, the German man suspected of abducting missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, appears in public for the first time since being named in her case, arriving at a court in Braunschweig for the start of his trial on unrelated sex crime charges. German prosecutors have yet to charge Brueckner over Madeleine's disappearance, but in October 2022 he was charged with five separate counts of rape and child sex abuse allegedly committed in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared, between 2000 and 2017. IMAGES
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