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Masked police officers in Romania have carried out fresh raids at the home of divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate, who is awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. Romania’s anti-organised crime agency, DIICOT, said it was searching four homes in the counties of Bucharest and nearby Ilfov early on Wednesday. It's investigating allegations of human trafficking, the trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering. The agency added that hearings will later be held at its head...
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A German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. The Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 by a state court in Itzehoe in northern Germany. She was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, function. She was convicted of being an accessory to mu...
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Courts across the UK are handing down a raft of sentences to those involved in the far-right riots that have gripped parts of England and Northern Ireland this the past week, amid fears of further violence this weekend. Many cases have already been rushed before judges over the past few days, with the longest sentence handed down so far being three years in prison, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed that rioters would feel the "full force of the law". The UK government will hope that harsh sentences, delivered swiftly, will deter further disorder as concerns grow that the start of the foo...
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A recent audit of a Spanish algorithm used by the criminal justice system found “substantial deficiencies” in the reliability of its decisions on how likely prisoners are to reoffend. Eticas, an algorithmic auditing company, did what they say is the first adversarial audit of RisCanvi, an algorithm that calculates the risk of an inmate committing a reoffence based on a series of weighted characteristics. The company conducted interviews with inmates, lawyers and psychologists and compared data from 3,600 released prisoners in 2015, the only public data set available according to the team. Etic...
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The trial of a Polish man accused of punching Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in the shoulder in June has begun, although Frederiksen is not expected to appear in court. She suffered a minor whiplash injury when a man assaulted her in central Copenhagen on 7 June and cancelled her schedule for the next few days. The Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet said the unidentified 39-year-old Polish man is charged with punching Frederiksen's right shoulder with a clenched fist, causing her to lose her balance, but not fall. Defence lawyer Henrik Karl Nielsen told Copenhagen District Court on Tuesda...
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As Paris prepares to host the Olympics next week, a popular French pastime won't be featured in the Summer Games. One of France's most beloved sports, has yet to secure its place as an Olympic discipline, despite persistent lobbying by the World Federation of Pétanque since 1985. The sedate game is for everyone in France, overcoming social and economic boundaries. From high-flying business executives to the unemployed, all compete equally on the court. The game's simplicity makes it accessible, while mastering its strategies and ball skills can take years. "Pétanque is played with two teams of...
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The new UK Labour Government in London has raised hopes across the North Atlantic Ocean that the controversial Northern Ireland Legacy and Reconciliation Act will be abolished. The Act, which came into Law in September of 2023, is designed to close down all future investigations into unsolved murders carried out by Irish republicans, UK loyalists and members of the British security services during the Troubles in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1998. Over 3.500 people were killed in the conflict, but many bereaved families on both sides of the religious divide have been denied truth and just...
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was given preliminary charges Tuesday for involvement in allegedly pressuring a witness who accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy of receiving illegal campaign financing from Libya. Former supermodel and French first lady Bruni-Sarkozy was placed under judicial supervision on Tuesday, which included a ban on contact with all those involved in the proceedings, with the exception of her husband, according to officials. The charges against Bruni-Sarkozy include witness tampering and participation in a criminal association with an attempt to commit fraud in efforts to deceive ma...
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Greek authorities have extended the detention of two officers, charged on suspicion of triggering a wildfire on the island of Hydra by shooting off fireworks from a luxury yacht last Friday. The remaining 11 crew members of the yacht were released on bail. They remain banned from leaving the country and are required to appear monthly at their local police station. According to the lawyers, seven crew members had their bail set at €10,000, while the remaining four had to pay €20,000. The passengers — a group of Kazakhstan nationals reportedly including oligarchs — were allowed to leave Greece. ...
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US President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was convicted of all three charges in a federal gun trial. Hunter Biden was convicted on Tuesday of charges relating to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, he had lied on a gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Jurors found him guilty of lying to a licensed gun dealer, making a false claim by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for eleven days. The jury deliberated for about three hours over two days. Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, though first-time offender...
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