German man charged over WW2 Oradour massacre in France

http://www.oradour.info/

Background as to why, 70 years later, this is still important.

This guy must be well into his 90s. The chances of him being mentally fit enough to even understand any crime that he may have committed is pretty slim. It is pointless to keep pursuing these old Nazis unless raw revenge is your only motive.

Justice has only 1 motive - to dissuade anyone from ever doing it again. For that reason alone, everyone involved in such atrocities must be pursued and brought to trial.

No. I get that but the optics of locking up 95 year olds do not serve "Justice" very well, really.

His age is irrelevant. If he had been found 50 years ago, he'd still have been locked up and died in custody. The optics of allowing such a massacre to go unpunished I think are far worse.

'Justice' is often portrayed as being blind for a reason.

His age is not irrelevant to the public. If they see a creaky old fossil being locked up, lots will question whether "justice" is really happening. Officially, there is no question that it is.

It's a public office that is prosecuting him.

Sorry, your point is moot.

If it's in France, he'll be dead long before sentencing anyway.

Dude, sometimes it helps to read the article.

He is being prosecuted in Germany.

Dortmund.

I couldn't open it because of a network filter.

Ah, ok, yeah the BBC really are a bunch of facists, gotta be careful with that lot.

Next time I'll try to copy/paste the story.

Sometimes the links work, sometimes they don't. Our filters are .... quirky. At one point, it blocked us from going to our own corporate web site!

I never have any problems getting on to this dung pile, though in spite of the content!

Then why the fuck are you here? You do little else than lambast this site and it's members. Frankly you're fucking annoying. You come across as your stereotypical old man on the porch getting pissed off at the leaves for falling on his lawn, despite the fact he's outside an old age care centre in his underwear at -40. And there is no need for it, I'm sure you can communicate and contribute without having to go wonkers on us.

You don't like it, leave, and take your piss poor attitude with you.

Then why the fuck are you here? You do little else than lambast this site and it's members. Frankly you're fucking annoying. Stereotypical old man on the porch getting pissed off at the leaves for falling on his lawn, despite the fact he's outside an old age care centre in his underwear at -40.

You don't like it, leave, and take your piss poor attitude with you.

Oh, relax! I'm having fun on here. Did someone piss in your cornflakes, this AM?

p.s. What the hell are you going on about, anyway? ... all of the anger, vitriol? I don't even remember posting with you, before. If it's the "dung pile" comment, let me explain: I have been on several forums around the World over the last decade or so and this is the very first one that has a "fuck" thread. you will find that you can say things here that no one else anywhere can.