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Attempted murder charges in Munich underground smoking incident 

Jump to full article: Earth Times, 2008-04-17
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Two foreign youths are to face attempted murder charges for a highly-publicized assault in December on an elderly man who asked them to stop smoking on the Munich underground, prosecutors in the Bavarian capital said Thursday. The youths, a 20-year-old Turk and an 18-year-old Greek, were seen on security television footage broadcast throughout Germany and abroad beating the 76-year-old man after alighting from a train.

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