Terror charge may collapse

THE retrial of the man charged with helping the September 11 terror bombers may collapse, it emerged in Hamburg yesterday.

Terror charge may collapse

At a hearing to rule on Mounir el Motassadeq’s request to be freed from jail, Judge Ernst-Rainer Schudt pointed to an appeals court ruling last month that the suspect failed to get a fair trial the first time.

“In the further course of the proceedings it may have to be considered that ... the question of closing the case will arise,” the Hamburg state court said in a statement.

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