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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

David Courbet

Former Nazi camp guard Josef S. covers his face in the courtroom in Brandenburg, Germany, June 28, 2022. (Michele Tantussi/AP)
June 28, 2022, 12:47 pm
Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year prison sentence
Josef Schuetz, oldest person to go on trial for Holocaust crimes, found guilty of being accessory to murder at Sachsenhausen camp, though he says he was unaware of killings
By David Courbet
The accused Josef S. covers his face as he sits at the court room in Brandenburg, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
October 7, 2021, 4:44 pm
Ex-Nazi camp guard, 100, refuses to discuss atrocities at trial in Germany
Josef Schuetz, the oldest person to stand trial for Nazi-era crimes, is accused of ‘knowingly and willingly’ assisting in murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen
By David Courbet
Defendant Josef S (L) sits next to his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp and hides his face behind a folder as he waits for the start of his trial in Brandenburg an der Havel, northeastern Germany, on October 7, 2021. (Tobias Schwarz / AFP)
October 7, 2021, 12:20 pm
Germany puts 100-year-old concentration camp guard on trial for Nazi crimes
Defendant, the oldest ever to be tried for Nazi-era atrocities and identified only as Josef S., is accused of assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp
By David Courbet
Stephan Balliet, who is accused of shooting dead two people after an attempt to storm a synagogue in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany, is led by a police officer into the courtroom for the start of the 24th day of his trial on November 3, 2020 at the district court in Magdeburg, eastern Germany. (Ronny Hartmann / AFP)
December 21, 2020, 8:38 am
Verdict due in trial of Halle shooter who attacked synagogue on Yom Kippur
Stephan Balliet denies the Holocaust and expresses no remorse in trial over failed storming of German house of worship in 2019, after which he shot dead 2 people
By David Courbet and Deborah Cole
Stephan Balliet, who is accused of shooting dead two people after an attempt to storm a synagogue in Halle, arrives at the district court in Magdeburg, eastern Germany on July 21, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann/various sources/AFP)
July 21, 2020, 7:34 pm
Germany synagogue killer begins trial with rant against ‘Semitism’
Stephan Balliet, accused of shooting 2 dead after failing to storm shul in Halle, is warned he could be thrown out of courtroom for pushing racist worldview
By David Courbet
Stephan Balliet (Screengrab)
October 11, 2019, 4:18 pm
German suspect in synagogue attack isolated loner, unknown in hometown
A ‘lost’ college dropout with few job prospects, Stephan Balliet made no contact with his neighbors or fellow village residents, spending his days on the computer
By David Courbet
Alaa S, right, who is suspected of being responsible for the stabbing of Daniel Hillig in Chemnitz, escorted by a police officer as he arrives for the start of his trial at the court in Dresden, Germany, March 18, 2019. (Matthias Rietschel/AP)
March 18, 2019, 1:31 pm
Syrian in court for killing that sparked German far-right riots
Fatal stabbing of Daniel Hillig in street fight, allegedly by asylum seekers, led to protests in Chemnitz that saw Jewish, Turkish and Iranian restaurants vandalized
By Andrea HENTSCHEL and David Courbet
Johann Rehbogen, a 94-year-old former SS enlisted man, who is accused of hundreds of counts of accessory to murder for alleged crimes committed while he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp, waits for the beginning of the third day of his trial at the regional court in Muenster, Germany, November 13, 2018. (Guido Kirchner/pool photo via AP)
November 13, 2018, 1:38 pm
Ex-SS guard, 94, to testify at trial in Germany in rare move
Holocaust survivors to hear directly from Johann Rehbogen, charged with his role in mass killing of Jews at Stutthof concentration camp in the 1940s
By David Courbet
Founder and game designer at Paint Bucket Games Joerg Friedrich is reflected in a screen displaying a screenshot of his historical resistance strategy game 'Through the Darkest of Times,' featuring officers wearing the Nazi swastika, in Berlin on August 17, 2018. (AFP/John MacDougall)
August 24, 2018, 6:42 pm
Video game swastikas stir unease in Germany
Gaming community welcomes eased censorship rules regarding Nazi symbols, but some fear lifting longstanding ban could fuel far-right radicalization
By David Courbet and Marion PAYET
Bode Mende (R) and Karl Kreile stamp their marriage certificate as they become Germany's first gay couple to be legally married, tying the knot at the Schoeneberg town hall in Berlin on October 1, 2017. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
October 1, 2017, 11:06 pm
Germany celebrates first gay marriages
First of roughly 94,000 same-sex couples begin exchanging vows, after change of heart by Chancellor Angela Merkel allows measure to pass parliament
By David Courbet
This file photo taken on April 19, 2016 shows graves of migrants at a cemetery in Calais. (AFP Photo/Denis Charlet)
May 21, 2016, 7:51 am
Dignity only in death for migrants at France’s Calais ‘Jungle’
Aid workers and medical personnel work to spare the dozens who died trying to reach the UK from a nameless, forgotten fate
By David Courbet
Far-right football hooligans chant slogans as they hold a banner of the 'FCK-Casuals' hooligan movement, as they arrive in the square outside the stock exchange in Brussels on March 27, 2016 an area which has become an unofficial shrine to victims of the March 22 terror attacks. (AFP/Belga/NICOLAS MAETERLINCK)
March 28, 2016, 12:35 am
Brussels cops arrest far-right protesters at attacks memorial
Water cannons used to disperse black-clad mob shouting anti-immigrant slogans who moved in on impromptu shrine at Place de la Bourse
By David Courbet and Joshua MELVIN
A photo taken by a passenger with a smartphone through the window of a Thalys train shows police detaining a suspect on the platform at the main train station in Arras, northern France, on August 21, 2015 (AFP/CHRISTINA CATHERINE COONS)
August 22, 2015, 6:13 pm
French train attacker visited Syria, officials say
Suspected jihadist, known to French and Spanish intelligence services, was subdued by passengers after opening fire
By David Courbet and Remy Bellon
Migrants walk along railway tracks at the Eurotunnel terminal on July 28, 2015 in Calais-Frethun. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN)
July 29, 2015, 11:45 pm
Man killed as migrants storm Eurotunnel terminal
British ministers convene emergency talks as thousands attempt to reach ‘migrant El Dorado’ each night
By David Courbet
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