An Italian court has convicted 32 people, including former Autostrade per l’Italia chief Giovanni Castellucci, over the 2018 collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa that claimed 43 lives. Castellucci was sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of complicity in multiple counts of manslaughter through negligence. Another 25 defendants were either […]
Marine Le Pen is set to learn whether she can contest France’s 2027 presidential election as a Paris appeal court delivers its verdict on her electoral ban. Le Pen was convicted in 2025 for embezzling more than €4 million in European Parliament funds and received a five-year ban from holding public office. She has denied […]
A Swedish court has sentenced a 20-year-old man to one-and-a-half years in prison after convicting him of participating in the neo-Nazi group Maniac Murder Cult (MKY), which the court ruled is a terrorist organisation. The conviction marks a significant case under Sweden’s terrorism laws targeting extremist groups. According to the Attunda District Court, the
A German court has sentenced a Saudi psychiatrist to life in prison for driving a rented BMW into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg in December 2024, killing six people and injuring hundreds. The victims included five women aged between 45 and 75, as well as a nine-year-old boy. Prosecutors said the attack lasted just […]
In a landmark retrial in Belgrade, a Serbian court has sentenced the parents of a teenage boy who shot and killed nine children and a security guard at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school in May 2023. The father, Vladimir Kecmanović, was sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison for public safety offenses, including […]
An Austrian court has sentenced a 21-year-old man to 15 years in prison for planning a jihadist attack targeting a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during her Eras Tour in 2024. The suspect, identified as Beran A, was convicted on multiple terrorism-related charges after authorities foiled the planned attack ahead of three sold-out shows. Investigators […]
Former French senator Joel Guerriau has been found guilty of spiking the drink of MP Sandrine Josso with ecstasy in an attempted sexual assault. Guerriau, 68, was sentenced to four years in prison, with 18 months to be served behind bars, and ordered to pay €5,000 in damages to Josso for emotional distress. The incident […]
In Stockholm, a Russian-born Swedish man, Sergei Skvortsov, has been cleared by a court of charges relating to alleged unlawful intelligence activities against the US and Sweden. The 60-year-old, who operated import-export businesses, was accused of transmitting Western technology to Russia’s military intelligence service over a nine-year period from 2013 to 2022.
The captain of a cruise ship involved in a fatal collision with a small tour boat on the River Danube in Budapest, resulting in the death of 28 people, has been sentenced to five years in prison. This incident occurred during a rainstorm in May 2019 when the Mermaid, carrying South Korean tourists, quickly sank […]








