Germany Rules Retrial for Sept 11 Suspect

World | March 4, 2004, Thursday // 00:00

Germany's Federal Criminal Court ruled for Mounir al-Motassadek, by now the only convict for the September 11 attacks, to be freed from serving his 15-year sentence, and ordered a retrial. Evidence against him was not sufficient for a conviction, the presiding judge has said. The 29-year-old Moroccan was jailed as an accessory to more than 3,000 murders, and for membership of the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell behind the attacks.

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