Germany: Trial of Berlin bomb plotter begins
19 May 2019 |
7:48 am
Magomed-Ali C. was arrested in August 2018 on suspicion of planning a bomb attack at a Berlin shopping center. He allegedly had close ties to the man who killed 11 people at a Christmas market in the capital in 2016.
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