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Row after media seats at neo-Nazi trial allocated by lottery

2013-05-03 25 Dailymotion

Germany's most anticipated trial in decades against a suspected neo-Nazi will go ahead as planned, despite controversy over how seats have been assigned to the media.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (German) MUNICH HIGH COURT SPOKESPERSON, ANDREA TITZ, SAYING:<br/> <br />"In our opinion there is no reason to doubt that the trial can and will begin on Monday. That is what we expect."<br/> <br />The trial of suspected neo-Nazi 38-year-old Beate Zschaepe is one of the most anticipated in decades.<br/> <br />Beate Zschaepe is alleged to have belonged to a far-right cell that committed a series of racist murders over more than a decade.<br/> <br />The court re-assigned seats using a lottery after its original allocation was overturned by Germany's constitutional court for not granting any Turkish journalists a guaranteed seat, even though eight of the victims were ethnic Turks.<br/> <br />The new allocation, the result of the lottery, failed to guarantee places to major German dailies Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,

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