A German court today overturned the world’s only conviction for the September 11 attacks and ordered a retrial for a Moroccan found guilty last year of aiding the Hamburg cell of suicide hijackers.

A HAMBURG court yesterday acquitted a Moroccan man of helping the September 11 hijackers after a 5½-month trial that was only the second anywhere of a suspected attacker.

A Hamburg court today acquitted a Moroccan man of helping the September 11 hijackers after rejecting a dramatic last-minute motion for new evidence by a lawyer for relatives of US victims of the attacks.

FIVE relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks confronted the man on trial for supporting the plot yesterday, recounting their suffering since their loved ones perished.

Federal prosecutors today filed charges against Mounir El Motassadeq, the only September 11 suspect in custody in Germany, where several of the key hijackers were based.

The trial has resumed of a 93-year-old former Nazi SS officer who has denied ordering the shooting of 59 Italian prisoners more than 50 years ago.