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The Magdeburg Christmas market attack trial was stopped before the indictment was read out. The reason for the break, about three-quarters of an hour after the start of the trial, were two motions from the defense.
In it, the defendant’s lawyer Taleb al-Abdulmohsen specifically complained that his client had to sit in a glass box during the trial for security reasons. This is disproportionate, criticizes Thomas Rutkowski.
The trial before the regional court in a specially built hall took place under tight security. The defendant, who is from Saudi Arabia, was taken to the trial by helicopter from Burg prison. Masked bailiffs took the 51-year-old into the hall and sat next to him in a box.
Presiding judge Dirk Sternberg justified the security measures, among other things, by saying that defendants must also be protected from possible retaliation.
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