Motor vehicle insurance fraud: eight defendants in court in eisenstadt

A trial of eight defendants is currently taking place in Eisenstadt, the capital of the Austrian province of Burgenland. You are accused of motor vehicle insurance fraud. The defendants are alleged to have jointly staged a series of claims in order to defraud insurance companies.
In the course of this series, several vehicles were stolen and set on fire. The damage amounts totaled several hundred thousand euros. The defendants had apparently developed a strategy to cover up their actions and present themselves as victims to the insurance companies.