Gunman kills six at German child welfare centre
Four women and two men, all of them child welfare workers, were killed. Five died at the scene and a sixth died later in hospital.
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Berlin Greens want to allow head and neck tattoo’s for police officers
Current Berlin police guidelines strictly prohibit openly visible tattoos, particularly on the head, neck, hands and lower arms.
AfD politician brutally attacked, police investigate attempted murder
Michael Meister, an AfD state parliamentarian, was violently attacked outside his home by two assailants, suffering serious injuries in a politically motivated assault.
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German police arrest activists with cross commemorating Polish war victims
Robert Bąkiewicz has in the past been the organizer of Independence marches in Warsaw.
German police stop remigration activist from boarding flight to Porto summit
According to the German police, spreading the concept of remigration is "problematic".
German court jails ex-Baader-Meinhof militant Klette for 13 years
Daniela Klette, 67, has been found guilty of six counts of "particularly serious robbery" committed between 1999 and 2016.
AfD demands crime statistics change to reflect delinquency of citizens with ‘migrant background’
Germany’s right-wing AfD party has submitted a controversial proposal to parliament aimed at better reflecting differences in delinquency between ethnic Germans…
Leipzig car-ramming suspect had recent psychiatric care, German authorities say
A 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man, both German citizens, died at the scene.
Man known to police rams car into Leipzig pedestrians in suspected deliberate attack
A 33-year-old man already known to police has driven a car into a crowd of pedestrians on a busy shopping street in the eastern German city of Leipzig, killing two…
German court rules specific border check unlawful under Schengen rules
Syrians and Afghans in Germany eight times as likely to be suspects of violent crime as locals
Some groups of foreigners in Germany are much more likely to commit violent crimes as Germans themselves, new numbers from the German police show.
Germany sees record number of ‘criminal’ insults against politicians
German police have registered a record number of unlawful insults against politicians in 2025.
Violent attacks against German teachers double in 10 years
German schoolteachers are increasingly at risk of violent aggression.
German justice minister wants fare dodging decriminalised to ease burden on courts and prisons
Germany’s Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig has come out in favour of decriminalising fare evasion on the country’s public transport system – to ease pressure…
Italian hard-left MEP Ilaria Salis quietly removes parliamentary assistant after police investigation
Italian MEP Ilaria Salis quietly removed one of her parliamentary assistants in the wake of a police document check, carried out at her Rome hotel at the end of…
Italian police question MEP Ilaria Salis over ‘close ties’ with Antifa
Italian police, responding to a request from German authorities, questioned Italian MEP Ilaria Salis in her Rome hotel room as she travelled to a "No Kings" demonstration.
Afroman couldn’t have won his case in Europe
There is a war going on, oil prices are rushing up and down, and elections are being held.
German police raid facilities of hard-left group suspected of attacks on electricity grid
Hundreds of police officers have raided nineteen sites connected with the hard-left scene throughout Germany in the early morning hours of March 24 to search for…
German police raid Bavarian AfD MP’s premises over old social media posts
German authorities conducted searches at the private residence and parliamentary office of René Dierkes, a state lawmaker from the right-wing Alternative for Germany…
German police conduct 13th Day of Action against online ‘hate’
On Wednesday, February 25, German law enforcement carried out a nationwide “Day of Action Against Online Hate” involving raids and interrogations in connection…
Forty per cent of Berlin Police applicants fail German test
An inquiry into the qualifications of police applicants in Berlin has yielded results which politicians have called "shocking".
German police launch investigation against pensioner for calling Chancellor Merz ‘Pinocchio’ online
The police in Heilbronn in Southwestern Germany have launched an investigation against a pensioner who referred to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as “Pinocchio”…
Berlin court upholds road-salt ban despite hundreds of ice-related accidents
A Berlin court has thwarted an emergency plan of the city government to allow the use of road salt to keep pavements useable after an unprecedented cold spell turned…
Conductor on German train allegedly battered to death by fare dodger
A train conductor died after he was reportedly viciously attacked by a passenger without a ticket on a German regional service.
German AfD party politician arrested in parliament over business in Belarus
In an unprecedented scene at Germany's Saxony Landtag, or parliament building, Alternative for Germany (AfD) state parliamentarian Jörg Dornau was detained by police…
45,000 Berlin households left without electricity for days after Antifa destroys power line
Large areas of Berlin’s Southwest were left without electricity for several days in sub-zero temperatures after an attack claimed by hard-left group Antifa on…
‘Grotesque’ criminal case against former AfD MEP implodes in court
A long-running criminal case against Gunnar Beck, a former Member of the European Parliament for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has imploded before a Neuss…
Thousands of ammo rounds stolen from German lorry park
Unknown individuals stole thousands of rounds of ammunition from a lorry in an unsecured parking lot used by Germany’s military.
German journalist claims ‘massive restriction of press freedom’ by hard-left at anti-AfD protests
Paul Ronzheimer, deputy editor-in-chief of Germany’s most-read newspaper Bild, has claimed a “massive restriction of press freedom” after left-wing protesters…
Thousands of German police to protect AfD congress against left-wingers
The city of Giessen in the German State of Hesse is on high alert as it prepares to host the founding congress of a new youth wing for the right-wing Alternative…