Article: German lawyer files civil suit seeking damages on behalf of U.S. Sept. 11 survivors and relatives

MELISSA EDDY, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-03-2004
Dateline: FRANKFURT, Germany
A survivor of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center has filed a civil suit with a Hamburg court seeking damages from Abdelghani Mzoudi and Mounir el Motassadeq, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Andreas Schulz, an Berlin-based attorney who represented U.S. relatives of victims in criminal trials against the two men _ the first Sept. 11 trials anywhere _ said he had filed the civil suit with the Hamburg state court in an attempt to prevent either men from indirectly reaping financial benefits from the cases.

From Mzoudi, who was cleared last month by the same court of more than 3,000 counts of ...

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