set a legal precedent in that case the guard john demjanjuk was convicted as an accessory to twenty eight thousand murders a german court ruled that the defendant did not have to personally commit murder to be found guilty. the ruling sparked several new trials against former concentration camp workers in this latest trial seventeen survivors and relatives of those have victims from around the world every presented as co plaintiff's lawyer owner acts for an elderly couple from israel who interred it to two of his children let's get off for my clients this isn't about a prison sentence for the defendant they don't want to see him suffer. they want him to engage with his past to tell the truth and not to obscure trivialize or deny these crimes like so many s.s. men and others who were responsible have done in the past. he has never denied being a guard at start off but claims he knew nothing of the killings and was never a nazi due to his old age the trial hearings will only last up to two hours a day the case against him will continue until mid january. champion's league football returns t