Politkovskaya retrial

The trial on the murder of Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya is to be reopened. On Thursday Russia's supreme court in Moscow overturned the acquittal of the four men accused of being involved in her killing, on the basis that the jury's decision in February was based on a "lack of evidence": The left-liberal daily Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: "But the real perpetrators and those who commissioned the crime are still in hiding, and the public prosecutor's behaviour, pointing one moment to the hated oligarch Boris Berezovsky in London and shooting in the dark the next moment, only feeds suspicions that the true protagonists are completely out of the picture. The members of the jury coolly thwarted these attempts to obscure the situation in February while at the same time exposing the lamentable incompetence of the Russian public prosecutors. But the fact that some of the accused probably did have something to do with the crime gave the whole thing an additional bitter twist."

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