At the end of July, the Luxembourg City Court sentenced a former policeman to life in prison for double murder. In September 2016, the man had used cyanide to poison both his sister and his brother-in-law in Bereldange.
In the case of a double homicide which occurred in Schléiwenhaff and near the Tree of Liberty ("Fräiheetsbam") in November 2016, the Court of Appeal confirmed the sentences handed down at first instance in December, namely life imprisonment for the main defendant and 15 years of imprisonment, including five years suspended, for the second defendant. The victims were a drug dealer, who was shot dead at the so-called "Schléiwenhaff", and a prostitute, who was killed near the "Fräiheetsbam".
Rosario Grasso, the lawyer of the man who was sentenced to life in prison, stated that he would review the verdict to check if there was anything that would allow his client to appeal to the Court of Cassation (the Court of Cassation is part of Luxembourg's Superior Court of Justice, but not a third instance, as it does not judge the facts, only the correct application of the law).
Also in December, the Court of Appeal sentenced a man to 30 years in prison, including five years suspended, for the murder of his spouse in Schifflange in June 2018.
In mid-February, the Court of Appeal confirmed a 15-year prison sentence, including five years suspended, for a woman who stabbed her husband three times with a knife in Mertert in February 2015. Two of the three wounds she inflicted were fatal.
In July, the Luxembourg City Court sentenced a man to 20 years in prison. In November 2018, the man used a hammer to beat a woman on the head at least eight times in Esch-sur-Alzette.
At the end of November, the Diekirch Court sentenced a woman to 12 years in prison, including 10 years suspended, for having stabbed her partner in the chest with a knife in Redange in October 2018.
In October, the Luxembourg City Court sentenced a man to 12 years in prison, including 6 years suspended. The man had stabbed another individual in the back near the railway station in Esch-sur-Alzette in July 2018.
At the end of March, the Luxembourg City Court sentenced a man to 24 years in prison, including four years suspended, for having fatally wounded his girlfriend with a knife in Remich in July 2018.
In November, prosecution ended up demanding a life sentence for the ex-boyfriend of Ana Lopes. The man is accused of having killed Lopes in January 2017. The verdict in this case will be proclaimed on 12 January.
In July, the Luxembourg City Court sentenced the minor who has been imprisoned in Schrassig since January 2020 to one year in prison, half of which with the possibility for parole. The young man had repeatedly attacked guardians and administrative workers in the youth penitentiary in Dreiborn between July and November 2019.
The so-called "SREL" or "Frisbee" trial concluded in June with the Luxembourg City Court acquitting the three defendants Marco Mille, Fränk Schneider, and André Kemmer. The trial dealt with the bugging of the electronics specialist Loris Mariotto.
Pol Urbany, Kemmer's lawyer, stated that the verdict was just and correct.
At the end of November, the Diekirch Court sentenced a former member of Luxembourg's secret service to three years in prison combined with a fine of €25,000. The man embezzled a sum of €140,000 by selling four luxury cars, which were the property of Luxembourg's secret service SREL.
In October, the Court of Appeal decided to acquit Armand Clesse. The former director of the European and International Institute for Studies had been prosecuted for statements he had made during an interview on RTL Radio in February 2020 regarding hunting.
The Court of Appeal acquitted Luxembourg rapper Tun Tonnar at the beginning of April. In his song "FCK LXB", released during election period at the end of 2018, Tonnar criticised among other things the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (adr).
Tonnar's lawyer, Philippe Penning, stated that this was a "very important" verdict, and he congratulated the judicial authorities for having resisted the temptation to sanction his client's criticism because otherwise, he explained, "this would never end".
At the end of October, the Luxembourg City Court sentenced former national team footballer Dan Da Mota to two years in prison, both of which suspended, combined with a fine of €5,000. Da Mota had been accused of having exploited the vulnerability of a woman, resulting in her paying him a sum of approximately €165,000 between January 2016 and May 2018.
At the end of July, the Luxembourg City Court sentenced a former secondary school teacher to eight years in prison, with the possibility for parole. The man had been accused, among other things, of having raped a minor.
In mid-November, the Court of Cassation decided to annul a verdict by the Court of Appeal which dealt with the question of what authority an off-duty police officer has, if any. The Court of Cassation decided that the decision by the judges of the first and second instance to annul the fine of a police officer, who had issued it while he was not on duty, was wrong.
In the context of the coronavirus crisis, the Administrative Court confirmed, annulled, and reduced a number of fines for the violation of Covid-19 restrictions. The Administrative Court also decided against the municipality of Luxembourg City, the former Minister for Home Affairs, and the Minister for the Environment in the "Schoettermarjal" case as well as in the "Kennedy Sud" case.
It also dismissed a complaint by the Ecological Mouvement, which demanded access to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the State, the municipality of Bissen, and Google regarding the planned data centre of the American internet giant.
