This evidence-led archive spans adjudicated modern murders, active appellate proceedings and the Rumbula Holocaust mass shooting, whose historical record is established while individual postwar accountability remains incomplete.
Files appear here only when reliable sources document convictions and a criminal judgment.
Five men, four with police backgrounds, robbed a gaming hall. Captain Andris Znotiņš was killed; Arvo Žagars received life imprisonment.
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A Riga court convicted Petrovs of thirteen murders and eight attempted murders and imposed a life sentence. Wider allegations are recorded separately from the verdict.
Read the sourced case file →Lower-court findings are documented without presenting unfinished appeals or remanded proceedings as final judgments.
At least 25,000 Jews were murdered in two operations. Jeckeln and Arājs were later convicted, but the full killing apparatus was never adjudicated person by person.
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Fifty-four people died. The Supreme Court later overturned part of the sole conviction and returned the case for renewed appellate review.
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Three defendants were convicted in 2024, but both defense appeals and a prosecution protest remain under review.
Read the sourced case file →Court outcomes control the labels; accusations, institutional criticism and political responsibility do not expand criminal judgments.
Each file has a substantial official or court record and a clear human impact.
The Bunkus appeal and the remanded Zolitūde proceeding were both active in the latest reliable updates located.
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Direct answers that preserve the boundary between judgments and continuing proceedings.
Fifty-four people died, including three firefighters, and dozens more were injured when the supermarket roof collapsed on 21 November 2013.
Building engineer Ivars Sergets was the only one of nine defendants convicted at first instance. Eight defendants were acquitted.
No. The Riga Regional Court upheld the core result in 2023, but Latvia's Supreme Court overturned part of Sergets's conviction in December 2024 and returned that portion for renewed appellate review.
Because the remanded criminal proceedings were still active in the latest reliable update located. The page does not present the earlier conviction as wholly final.
No. Institutional criticism, political responsibility and criminal guilt are kept separate, and acquittals are reported as acquittals.