German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients

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A Germany former nurse accused of killing 100 patients in his care admitted on Tuesday to the murders on the first day of his trial in the biggest serial killing case in the country’s post-war history.

Asked by the presiding judge at the court in the northern city of Oldenburg whether the charges against him were accurate, Niels Hoegel replied, “Yes.”

“What I have admitted took place,” the 41-year-old told the courtroom crowded with dozens of grieving relatives.

Hoegel has already spent nearly a decade in prison on a life term for other patient deaths and is accused of intentionally administering medical overdoses to victims so he could bring them back to life at the last moment Aljazeera reported.

As the proceedings began in the northern city of Oldenburg, presiding judge Sebastian Buehrmann said the main aim of the trial was to establish the full scope of the…



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