GERMANY: SUPREME COURT REJECTS PROSECUTION APPEAL TO INCREASE SENTENCES FOR 1986 BERLIN NIGHTCLUB BOMBERS

Record ID: 451856

  • Title: GERMANY: SUPREME COURT REJECTS PROSECUTION APPEAL TO INCREASE SENTENCES FOR 1986 BERLIN NIGHTCLUB BOMBERS
  • Date: 24th June 2004
  • Summary: (U4) BERLIN, GERMANY (FILE - 1986) (REUTERS) GV: EXTERIOR DISCOTHEQUE LA BELLE AFTER IT WAS BOMBED, KILLING TWO AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND A TURKISH WOMAN CU: SIGN READING DISCO LA BELLE CLUB CU: SHOES IN RUBBLE MV/PAN: MAN WEARING HARD HAT WALKING PAST SITE GV: U.S. MILITARY POLICE AT SITE GV/PAN: FIREMEN GOING THROUGH RUBBLE GV: FIREMEN LIFTING PIECE OF CONCRETE GV: FIREMEN CARRYING EQUIPMENT OUTSIDE GV: FIREMAN WALKING IN RUBBLE (2 SHOTS) CU/ZOOM OUT/GV: PULLOUT FROM SIGN READING IN ENGLISH TONIGHT DANCING CONTEST - FIRST PRIZE 100,00 (U4) BERLIN, GERMANY (FILE - MAY 23, 1996) (REUTERS) GV: ARRIVAL OF PALESTINIAN YASSER CHRAIDI, EXTRADITED FROM LEBANON, ARRIVING ABOARD MEA PLANE, CONVICTED OF ASSISTING MURDER AND SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IMPRISONMENT AT NOVEMBER 13, 2001 TRIAL, ARMED SECURITY (2 SHOTS) GV: HAND-CUFFED CHRAIDI BEING LED DOWN STAIRS AND TO WAITING ARMOURED POLICE LIMOUSINE, ARMED POLICE (2 SHOTS) GV/ZOOM/LV: POLICE LIMOUSINES DRIVING OFF (U4) BERLIN, GERMANY (FILE - NOVEMBER 13, 2001) (REUTERS) CU/MV: RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND VICTIMS WHO SURVIVED BOMBING ATTACK (MAN WITH LONG HAIR WAS A WAITER AT THE LA BELLE) MEETING IN HALLWAY, TALKING TO EACH OTHER (3 SHOTS) Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th July 2004 13:00
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  • Location: LEIPZIG, BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA3WJCTS0G4BARPPF8CY3ZREQWU
  • Story Text: Germany's supreme court has rejected an appeal by prosecutors seeking tougher sentences for four people jailed for a 1986 nightclub bombing.
    Germany's supreme court rejected an appeal on Thursday (June 24) by prosecutors seeking tougher sentences for four people jailed for the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub by Libyan agents.
    The Federal Supreme Court in Leipzig rejected complaints from the Federal Prosecutors' Office and victims of the bombing, who said previous sentences were too mild.
    The court confirmed a 2001 verdict by a Berlin court, which ruled the Libyan secret service was behind the bombing and sentenced two Palestinian men, a former Libyan diplomat and a German woman to prison terms between 12 and 14 years for murder and aiding and abetting murder.
    Two American soldiers and a Turkish woman were killed and more than 200 other people were wounded in the explosion at the "La Belle" disco in West Berlin that had been popular with U.S. soldiers.
    German lawyers and Libyan officials have been negotiating a compens ation deal covering the more than 160 non-American victims of the attack and the relatives of the Turkish woman killed.
    A settlement would remove one of the remaining hurdles barring Tripoli from joining the European Union's trade and aid partnership with Mediterranean countries and be another step to ending the pariah status of the oil-rich North African nation.
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