On 7 December, a German court found Margriet Bos, a Dutch Catholic Worker, and Dennis DuVall, a US military veteran, guilty of cutting through a fence to enter the air force base at Büchel last summer. Büchel houses 20 B61 nuclear bombs, owned by the US but available to the German air force.
Margriet and Dennis argued that the German state should be on trial, because German pilots at Büchel are trained to drop H-bombs on Russian cities, a crime against humanity.
A third defendant, Susan van de Hijden (also from the Amsterdam Catholic Worker), did not appear.