Berlin, June 19, 2026 (AFP) - German court jails man over online 'death lists' of politicians

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2026-06-19

A German court on Friday handed a three-year jail term to a man who published online "death sentences" with calls to kill politicians, said to include former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz. The 50-year-old German-Polish man, partially named as Martin S., admitted to operating an anonymous darknet platform called "Assassination Politics", during the trial held in the western city of Duesseldorf. He was convicted of crimes including terr......

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