Hamburg Court Delays 9/11 Trial by One Week

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Hamburg Court Delays 9/11 Trial by One Week

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - A German court ordered on Tuesday a week's delay in the trial of Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan accused of aiding the Sept. 11 attacks, allowing time to brief a replacement for a defense lawyer hurt in an accident.
Gerhard Strate, a lawyer who has represented Motassadeq in the past, agreed to join in his defense after Josef Graessle-Muenscher was injured in a weekend motorcycle accident.

The court rejected an application from Motassadeq's defense team for the case to be restarted, ruling that a one-week delay was sufficient for the new lawyer to prepare.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when al Qaeda teams used hijacked planes to attack U.S. cities on Sept. 11, 2001.

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