The case will be revised and enter into a new phase, after the initial verdict was delivered on 25 June.

On Tuesday 7 July, the state prosecutor requested an appeal of the verdict. The infamous SREL investigation into the Luxembourgish intelligence service thus remains unfinished.

On the final day of the first trial phase, defendants Marco Mille, Fränk Schneider, and André Kemmer were acquitted by city's 12th district court. The judicial administration conveyed that the dates for the continuation of the process were still to be fixed.

The dossier in short

The three former SREL agents are being accused of having participated in an illegal surveillance undertaking of a conversation between Grand Duke Henri and then Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker in 2007. Talks between both statesmen surrounded the series of attacks during the 1980s that left five people injured.

The investigation questions whether or not the surveillance violated privacy laws and if it had been approved by higher authority.

One of the defendants' attorneys criticised the investigation's position towards Juncker, who had only been called as a witness.