Prosecutors demand life term over Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Abdulmohsen drove a rented car into the crowded market on December 20, 2024. The dead were a nine-year-old boy and five women aged 45 to 75.
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German court jails Syrian migrant for life over Islamist knife attack
The 36-year-old, identified under German privacy rules only as Mahmoud M., was "driven by a radical jihadist mindset" when he carried out the assault.
France has the European Union’s most overcrowded prisons
Foreign nationals account for about a quarter of inmates — around three times their share of the country's population.
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…
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.
German ‘trans neo-Nazi’ jailed in Czechia fights extradition to Germany
A neo-Nazi activist from Germany who legally changed his gender to avoid imprisonment in a men’s jail has been apprehended in Czechia – but he is fighting his…
Violent attacks against German teachers double in 10 years
German schoolteachers are increasingly at risk of violent aggression.
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…
Syrian terrorist gets 13 years for knife attack at Berlin Holocaust memorial
A Berlin court has sentenced a 20-year-old Syrian immigrant to 13 years in prison for a stabbing attack on a tourist at the German capital’s Holocaust memorial.
Alleged rapist given seven-year jail term released in Berlin due to procedural error
An Afghan man sentenced to seven years in a German prison for alleged rape and battery has been released from custody after a judge at a Berlin court failed to write…
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.
Updated: Man who killed girl in metro train horror was in Germany via UN humanitarian programme, newspaper reports
A South Sudanese man who killed an 18-year-old woman by pulling her with him in front of an incoming subway train in Hamburg was flown in directly from Africa by…
Germany cannot deport Somalian killer due to ‘risk of re-entry’
A Somali man who stabbed three women to death in Würzburg, Bavaria, cannot be deported from Germany and will remain in psychiatric care in the country indefinitely.
German Chancellor Merz bows to pressure over immigrants: ‘They’re indispensable’
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has qualified his much-criticised remarks on immigrants made a few days ago.
Uproar after Merz says migration ’causes problems’ in German cities
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has caused huge uproar on the German Left with a casual remark about how migration has negatively affected the country’s cities.
German public broadcaster drops conservative show host after left-wing staff revolt
German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) has ended its collaboration with Julia Ruhs, host and editor of the popular TV show Klar.
‘Thousands of fake language and integration certificates circulating in Germany’
Research by German media has revealed that thousands of counterfeit certificates attesting language skills and successful integration into German society may be…
US Special Envoy slams German leader Merz after knife attack on US student
Richard Grenell, the US Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, has criticised German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over Germany’s lax response to a rise in immigrant…
Germany to extend border controls in migration crackdown
Germany will push on with temporary border controls beyond a September deadline as it cracks down on irregular immigration, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt…
Germany deports Afghan criminals back home in second flight
After a hiatus of almost a year, Germany has organised a second deportation flight to Afghanistan.
Really? Poster campaign warns of Germans sexually harassing migrants at public pools
A public awareness campaign in Germany has sparked controversy over its portrayal of victims and offenders of harassment in public swimming pools.
German police arrest Syrian over alleged Islamist stabbing attack wounding five
Police in the German town of Bielefeld arrested a Syrian man May 19 as the prime suspect in a stabbing attack on a group of bar customers the previous day.
German interior minister hails stricter border controls, but police bemoan lack of staff
Alexander Dobrindt, Germany’s new interior minister from Bavaria's Christian Social Union, drew a positive conclusion from the first week of stricter border controls.
Police raid Munich immigration office over suspected asylum bribery
German police have searched the immigration office in Munich on suspicions that employees there took bribes in exchange for positive asylum decisions.
Migrant gangs and religious violence have made Europeans hostages in their own countries
From Taylor Swift dance classes to Christmas markets to an innocent stroll in the park or meeting some friends in the city centre of a bucolic village in southern…
‘Something fundamental has to change,’ says Bavarian leader after alleged migrant attack
Markus Söder, a Bavarian Christian Democrat heavyweight, has blamed an apparent attack in which a man ploughed a car into protesters on the streets of Munich on…
Asylum applications plunge in Germany
Asylum applications in Germany fell by 34 per cent last year, the country's interior ministry has said.
Berlin daily sex crimes soared by 79% last year, report finds
In Berlin, sexual crimes soared last year, according to local government data.
German county ‘pays €40,000 per month to monitor aggressive asylum seeker’
Bad Kreuznach county in the German State of Rhineland-Palatinate has been paying €40,000 per month for private security services to monitor an allegedly aggressive…
German ‘cordon sanitaire breaks down’ with migration vote, claims Left
The German Bundestag – the main chamber of parliament – has voted in favour of a proposal by the Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party for stricter…