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Trial date set for German student who hurled shoe at Wen Jiabao
Mar 10, 2009, 12:36 GMT
London - The trial of a German student accused of hurling a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his visit to Britain last month will take place in early June, a court in Cambridge said Tuesday.
Martin Jahnke, a 27-year-old graduate student at the pathology department of Cambridge university, had pleaded not guilty to the charges of committing a public order offence and inciting violence at pre-trial hearings.
But following a further preliminary hearing Tuesday, the presiding judge ruled that the trial at Cambridge Magistrate's Court would start on June 2. Jahnke will remain free on bail.
He was arrested on February 2 for throwing a shoe at Wen, who was giving a speech on the global economy to an audience of mostly Chinese students during an official visit to Britain.
The shoe missed Wen by about a metre.
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