Germany

Participants:
Heike Kremer - judge
Edith Lunnebach - attorney
John Gelübcke - judge
Hans-Erich Jürgens - judge
Volker Kirchesch - judge
Heinrich Comes - attorney

Case:
A 22 year old man from Milano is charged with having committed a theft, together with two other unknown persons, having disturbed domestic peace, the peace of the dead and divine service. In the night of 16/17 November 2006, the prosecutor says, the three malefactors have opened the golden shrine in the cathedral of Cologne and have robbed the bones of the Three Magi. Trying to cross the Swiss border, the young man has been arrested in the possession of a handful of bones.
The defendant and his defence counsel will object - among other things:
- that he is not the person impeached by the prosecutor but, maybe, his twin brother;
- that the photograph, supposed to be a reproduction of the author of the crime, would not correspond to his physiognomy;
- that even if it was so, he has not touched the holy bones and certainly not stolen them;
- that, in case he had taken them away, the bones were not those of the famous Magi;
- and after all, if all this should be proved, he would have been entitled to do it.
We are convinced, that the honourable judge will be all ears for every argument and will pronounce a wise decision.