German trainee fined 227,000 euros for illegal Facebook party

BERLIN, Aug 2: (Reuters) A German court has handed a 20-year-old apprentice a (280,000 dollar) bill to cover police costs after he organized an illegal party through the Facebook social network in the southern German town of Constance. The man identified only as Matthias L. Told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag that he attended a number of other parties announced on Facebook and got the idea to have an even bigger event at a public beach on the shores of Lake  Constance. (agencies)