Stock Photo - 19 April 2021, Hamburg: A defendant (r) sits in the courtroom of St. Georg District Court at the beginning of the trial against him and an accomplice for joint attempted abortion. Matthias Lux (l), a judge at Hamburg District Court, presides over the trial. One of the accused is accused of having staged attacks on his pregnant girlfriend in order to cause the loss of their common child. Among others, the co-defendant is said to have helped him in this and to have attacked the pregnant woman in a park and kicked her several times in the stomach. The father of the unborn child is also alleged to have punched the woman. Premature contractions then necessitated an emergency caesarean section. Photo: Marcus Brandt/dpa. - Hamburg/Hamburg/Germany