- Fact check: Trump falsely claims US crime stats are only going up. Most went down last year, including massive drop in murder https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/politics/fact-check-trump-falsely-claims-us-crime-stats-are-only-going-up-most-went-down-last-year-including-massive-drop-in-murder/index.html 179 comments politics
- A 94-year-old German is to go on trial accused of being an accessory to hundreds of murders in a Nazi concentration camp during the second world war | The man, who has not been named for legal reasons, will be tried in a juvenile court, as he was aged less than 21 at the time of the alleged crimes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/nazi-war-crimes-suspect-faces-trial-german-youth-court 557 comments worldnews
- Man claims he committed murder to avoid going back to Pakistan; A worker who murdered his sleeping colleague claimed he committed the crime because he preferred jail over a return to his home country, a Dubai Court of First Instance heard Thursday https://gulfnews.com/uae/crime/man-claims-he-committed-murder-to-avoid-going-back-to-pakistan-1.63697253 3 comments worldnews
- Bruno Dey, 93, will go on trial in Germany on Thursday for crimes of complicity in mass murder at Stutthof, a Nazi death camp in what is now northern Poland. He is accused of contributing to killings of 5,230 prisoners between 1944 and 1945. The former guard said he was not complicit in any murders. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50074422 15 comments worldnews
- Leon Edwards: "I was never supposed to be UFC champion. I was born in poverty, had a dad involved in gang crime, which caused his murder, and I was going down the same path... I want to be an inspiration for kids who were like me" https://www.si.com/mma/2023/03/16/ufc-286-leon-edwards-is-ready-for-another-big-moment 12 comments mma
- Where Nazis are heroes-An anti-fascist partisan in Latvia made legal history when he was sentenced for war crimes - while pro-German soldiers who murdered thousands of Jews go free. Ian Traynor on the case that is focusing world attention on Latvia's disturbing legacy of collaboration-Guardian,2000 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/13/features11.g23 3 comments russia