Overview

• The Saarbrücken court handed a 70-year-old a 14-year sentence after new DNA evidence tied him to a 1996 double murder and arson attempt in Völklingen
• In Munich, a 58-year-old woman and three alleged accomplices have begun an eight-day trial for plotting to murder her husband to access his wealth
• Berlin’s Landgericht opened a trial against a 23-year-old accused of posing as a woman online to lure and stab a 21-year-old acquaintance, who remains paraplegic
• Heilbronn’s verdict against two men for planning an Islamist attack on a synagogue became final when the principal defendant withdrew his appeal
• A closed hearing in Frankenthal has started for a 17-year-old charged with conspiring to carry out a December school shooting, with prosecutors seeking his psychiatric confinement