FRANCE 24 English | Ex-Stasi officer jailed over 1974 Berlin border killing • FRANCE 24 English @France24_en | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
A former East German secret police officer was sentenced to 10 years in jail in a landmark ruling on Monday for shooting dead a Polish man trying to flee to the West 50 years ago. The sentence, almost 35 years after the Berlin Wall fell, marks the first time a former Stasi officer has been convicted of a homicide committed on duty, according to historians. FRANCE 24's Nick Holdsworth reports.
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