Étiqueté : murder

Salah Abdeslam chanced on guilty of tried slay in Brussels raid 0

Salah Abdeslam chanced on guilty of tried slay in Brussels raid

The only surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in a 2016 gunfight with police in Brussels.  Salah Abdeslam was convicted of attempted murder along with his co-accused Sofien Ayari, who also received a 20-year prison sentence, at a court in the Belgian capital on…

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Honduras arrests ‘mastermind’ in the lend a hand of Berta Caceres’ raze

Police in Honduras have arrested a construction executive for his alleged role in the murder of environmental and indigenous activist Berta Caceres. David Castillo Mejia is charged as being the « intellectual author » of the killing in 2016 while CEO of Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA), the firm behind a project to build a hydroelectric dam across a river…

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Yemen’s Saleh: A political waste mystery

The violent and unexpected death of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the ousted Yemeni leader, has put an end to his chequered political career spanning nearly four decades. It has also touched off an avalanche of claims and counterclaims regarding the circumstances of his killing. The regional news media is rife with speculation amid multiple theories of…