Former officer with East Germany's secret police goes on trial for a border killing in 1974
Briefly

He did not speak as the trial opened, but his lawyer said that her client contests the accusations against him.
Authorities made little headway with the case until a decisive tip on the identity of the shooter emerged in 2016 from the Stasi's voluminous archives.
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