Row after media seats at neo-Nazi trial allocated by lottery
- 11 years ago
Germany's most anticipated trial in decades against a suspected neo-Nazi will go ahead as planned, despite controversy over how seats have been assigned to the media.
(SOUNDBITE) (German) MUNICH HIGH COURT SPOKESPERSON, ANDREA TITZ, SAYING:
"In our opinion there is no reason to doubt that the trial can and will begin on Monday. That is what we expect."
The trial of suspected neo-Nazi 38-year-old Beate Zschaepe is one of the most anticipated in decades.
Beate Zschaepe is alleged to have belonged to a far-right cell that committed a series of racist murders over more than a decade.
The court re-assigned seats using a lottery after its original allocation was overturned by Germany's constitutional court for not granting any Turkish journalists a guaranteed seat, even though eight of the victims were ethnic Turks.
The new allocation, the result of the lottery, failed to guarantee places to major German dailies Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
(SOUNDBITE) (German) MUNICH HIGH COURT SPOKESPERSON, ANDREA TITZ, SAYING:
"In our opinion there is no reason to doubt that the trial can and will begin on Monday. That is what we expect."
The trial of suspected neo-Nazi 38-year-old Beate Zschaepe is one of the most anticipated in decades.
Beate Zschaepe is alleged to have belonged to a far-right cell that committed a series of racist murders over more than a decade.
The court re-assigned seats using a lottery after its original allocation was overturned by Germany's constitutional court for not granting any Turkish journalists a guaranteed seat, even though eight of the victims were ethnic Turks.
The new allocation, the result of the lottery, failed to guarantee places to major German dailies Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,