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Turkey is joining South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made the announcement in Ankara on Wednesday. He said the legal details of taking part in the lawsuit were still be worked out. At the end of December, South Africa took Israel to the top UN court in The Hague for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. South Africa contends that Israel is committing "systematic" acts of genocide in Gaza, citing examples of military violence and st...
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A German football fan has appealed his sentence of three years in jail for throwing a firecracker which injured around a dozen people at a Bundesliga match. According to the Augsburg regional court on Tuesday, the 28-year-old has launched an appeal at the Federal Court of Justice despite admitting guilt. The Hoffenheim fan was sentenced last week for causing the explosion at the Augsburg v Hoffenheim game in November 2023. Three of the man's acquaintances, who were given suspended sentences for aiding and abetting grievous bodily harm, have accepted the judgements.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that FIFA's rules on players transfer may prove to be contrary to European Union's law in view of a dispute between former French player Lassana Diarra and the football governing body. Advocate general Maciej Szpunar emitted an opinion on Tuesday, saying that FIFA rules "governing contractual relations between players and clubs may prove to be contrary to the European rules on competition and freedom of movement of persons." Diarra signed for Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow in 2013, only to have that contract terminated by the club one y...
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Those convicted of belonging to organized crime groups in France will face up to 20 years in prison under new criminal statutes being introduced by the government, French Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti said in an interview with the Tribune Dimanche newspaper published on Sunday. A new specialized national public prosecutor's office will also be created to better coordinate the fight against organized crime, Dupond-Moretti said. He said France should introduce protections and benefits for criminals who turn on their former associates and provide key evidence to help dismantle a criminal n...
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A German conservative opposition lawmaker is challenging the coalition government's plans to pass a major overhaul of C02 emissions targets through parliament on Friday, seeking an injunction to force a delay to the vote. Thomas Heilmann, a lawmaker with the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), is arguing that the legislative process has been rushed. He asked Germany's Constitutional Court on Wednesday to delay the scheduled vote. The proposed changes from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left coalition government would introduce fundamental changes to how Germany's legally binding climate e...
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Juventus will have to play former player Cristiano Ronaldo almost €10 million ($10.6 million), an Italian court ruled on Wednesday. Ronaldo, who now plays at Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, won a lawsuit against his former club over a salary dispute during the Covid-19 pandemic. The case concerns payments that were deferred during the 2020-2021 season. Due to the pandemic, several football teams had financial losses. Ronaldo was among players who had salaries deferred, but he later went to court and demanded almost €20 million. Juventus insisted that Ronaldo had waived his salary voluntarily at the ...
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Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeneß said during a testimony on Monday that he knew nothing about the purpose of an alleged payment from French entrepreneur Robert Louis-Dreyfus to the late German football great Franz Beckenbauer. "I don't know what the money was for," Hoeneß said and ruled out the possibility that the money was used to buy votes to award Germany the 2006 World Cup. "FIFA was a pretty corrupt bunch back then. You could even think about buying a World Cup. But I'm still convinced that the German Football Federation (DFB) and Germany didn't do that. I'm sure of that," Hoe...
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Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeneß said during a testimony on Monday that he knew nothing about the purpose of an alleged payment from French entrepreneur Robert Louis-Dreyfus to the late German football great Franz Beckenbauer. "I don't know what the money was for," Hoeneß said and ruled out the possibility that the money was used to buy votes to award Germany the 2006 World Cup. "FIFA was a pretty corrupt bunch back then. You could even think about buying a World Cup. But I'm still convinced that the German Football Federation (DFB) and Germany didn't do that. I'm sure of that," Hoe...
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Germany has categorically rejected legal action brought by Nicaragua that it is facilitating genocide in providing support to Israel in the war in the Gaza Strip. "These allegations are completely without legal or factual foundation," Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, head of the German delegation to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), said in The Hague on Tuesday. Von Uslar-Gleichen said that Germany was neither in violation of the genocide convention nor of humanitarian international law. "Germany's actions in this conflict are firmly rooted in international law," she said. In its application ...
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Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Daniel Alves is to be conditionally released from jail after he paid bail of €1 million ($1.08 million), a spokesperson for the Spanish judiciary told dpa on Monday. Last month, Alves was sentenced to four years and six months in prison by a Spanish court for sexual assault. He was found guilty of assaulting a woman in the bathroom of an upscale Barcelona nightclub on New Year’s Eve in 2022 and has been in custody since being arrested for the offence in January 2023. But last week, the Spanish court ruled that Alves could be conditionally released from jail...
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