German judges at the retrial of a Moroccan man accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks will consider how to proceed on Tuesday after one of the defence lawyers was critically injured in a motorcycle accident.
A court spokeswoman said the presiding judge at the trial of Mounir El Motassadeq would consult all parties involved in the case following the weekend accident to lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher.
"It's possible that the programme or course of the trial, as planned up till now, may change," the spokeswoman said.
A second defence lawyer, Udo Jacob, said Graessle-Muenscher's life was in danger after Saturday's collision. The Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper said emergency services had had to resuscitate the 58-year-old and fly him to hospital by helicopter after he slammed into a road sign following a collision with a car.
Jacob said he had asked another lawyer for Motassadeq, Gerhard Strate, to take Graessle-Muenscher's place on the defence team because the 60,000-page case dossier was too much for one person to handle. Strate had not yet replied.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when al Qaeda teams used hijacked planes to attack the United States on September 11, 2001.
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