Vast International Child-Porn Network Uncovered
Robert Mikelsons, who was sentenced in Amsterdam on May 21, 2012, to 18 years in prison for abusing dozens of babies and toddlers, is seen in this undated booking photo. The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children’s puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical [...]
Far-Right lawmakers expelled from German parliament for wearing clothing label favoured by neo-Nazis
Eight lawmakers were ousted from a German parliamentary session, because they were wearing clothes favoured by neo-Nazis. The National Democratic Party (NPD) MPs were asked to remove shirts made by the Thor Steinar brand, which are popular among far-right supporters, during the assembly in Saxony, yesterday. The group were accused of deliberating wearing the clothes, [...]
Psychopath who imprisoned ‘sex slave’ in a telephone box rigged with explosives in his flat is sent to psychiatric hospital
A lunatic who kidnapped a woman as a sex slave and imprisoned her in a makeshift torture chamber has been sentenced to an indefinite term in a secure psychiatric hospital. Thomas Fischer, 30, made headlines last year when the woman escaped from a telephone box rigged to explosives that he had set up in his [...]
retrial begins of woman burned at the stake as a witch in 1627
A woman who was burned at the stake for sorcery more than 300 years is the subject of an extraordinary retrial which is seeking to clear her name. Katharina Henot was tried, convicted and burned at the stake in the German city of Cologne in 1627 for being a witch – one of an [...]