Courtside Europe

A family was executed on a forest road in the French Alps. A four-year-old survived by hiding under her mothers body for eight hours. Thirteen years later, the case remains unsolved.

A family in Monaco ran a global bribery machine for blue-chip corporations. Rolls-Royce paid 671 million pounds to avoid prosecution. The executives who couldnt pay went to prison.

On Christmas night 2017, Georgian special forces raided a house and shot a 19-year-old in his bed. The European Court found the state violated his right to life — not by killing him, but by making sure the truth could never be found.

The largest trial in Dutch history. A drug lord who ordered murders from prison. A journalist assassinated on an Amsterdam street. And a life sentence delivered in a bunker.

At quarter to four on a Saturday afternoon in Brussels, a man walked into the Jewish Museum of Belgium carrying two bags. Eighty-two seconds later, four people were dead. The man was Mehdi Nemmouche — the first European citizen to travel to Syria, join ISIS, and return home to kill. Before the museum, he had been a torturer of Western hostages. The journalists he tortured would later testify against him in court.