Former Stasi Officer to Stand Trial for 1974 Murder at Berlin Train Station
Berlin, Germany – A former Stasi lieutenant, aged 80, is set to stand trial for murder on Thursday in connection with the 1974 fatal shooting of Czesław Kukuczka, a Polish man, at Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse train station. The prosecution alleges that the defendant killed Kukuczka with a targeted shot to the back as he attempted to cross the border into West Berlin, as stated in the indictment. According to reports, Stasi officials had permitted Kukuczka to …