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Karlsruhe (dpa) - Inadmissible arms deliveries from Germany to Mexican troubled provinces occupy today (10.15 a.m.) the Federal Court of Justice (BGH).
It is about 4200 assault rifles and accessories that the armaments company Heckler & Koch sold to Mexico from 2006 to 2009.
There the weapons were resold by the central procurement office to the police in states that are alleged to have violated human rights.
The German authorities had approved the exports to Heckler & Koch because they had been given the names of unproblematic provinces as recipients of the weapons.
The alleged main perpetrators could not be held responsible because one of them died and the other was too sick to travel to Mexico.
In February 2019, the Stuttgart district court sentenced a former sales manager and a former clerk to probation.
The three other defendants, including two ex-managing directors, were acquitted.
Heckler & Koch is to collect around 3.7 million euros.
All sides have appealed against this ruling in Karlsruhe, and negotiations are now under way.
When the chief criminal judges will announce their verdict is open.
(Az. 3 StR 474/19)
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Announcement by the BGH
LG Stuttgart on the judgment of February 21, 2019
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H&K at the time for judgment
H&K at the start of the process in May 2018
ECCHR human rights activist on the procedure