The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
At the protests against the Alternativ für Deutschland’s (AfD) party conference in Erfurt last weekend, a reporter for Apollo News was chased through the crowd and kicked in the head. He suffered a bloody wound. The next day, representatives of the anti-AfD alliance ‘Widersetzen’ were asked repeatedly if they condemned the attack. Initially they refused. Eventually, one activist replied: “Fascists with a press pass are still fascists.”
In Germany, the trains have stopped running on time, bridges have been shut over safety fears, and the country’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, is cutting a sixth of its workforce. The government’s response amounts to a shrug, dressed up as reform. It seems like Germany is on a bad streak – and the AfD looks set to reap the rewards.
Take the railways, the infamous Deutsche Bahn. A few weeks ago, they ground to a total halt. Every train in the country stood still, because the radio system that lets drivers talk to signal boxes – a system that appears to date, in spirit if not in silicon, from the Kaiserreich – simply stopped working. For several hours, nothing moved on the tracks of Europe’s largest economy.
Several people were wounded and a suspect was arrested in an apparent violent attack at a secondary school in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday, police said.
‘A suspected perpetrator has been arrested,’ local police confirmed in a post on X.
‘The number of people involved and the severity of the injuries are currently being clarified.’
An einem Gymnasium im oberbayerischen Schongau sind mehrere Menschen verletzt worden. Nach Angaben der Polizei wurde ein mutmaßlicher Täter nach dem Vorfall am Welfen-Gymnasium festgenommen. https://t.co/WhzgAeRc14 pic.twitter.com/EKeFxDnbt9
— NIUS (@niusde_) July 8, 2026
Update: Perp is Croatian background, was in psychiatric care and may be an ex-student of the school
Organisers of the left-wing radical alliance Widersetzen (‘Resist’) have refused to condemn attacks on right-wing journalists following large-scale demonstrations held during the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) federal party congress in Erfurt.
More than 31,000 people took part in protests across the Thuringian capital on the weekend, which were organised to disrupt the AfD’s congress and block participants from attending.
🔴 Drei Reporter von Apollo News wurden in Erfurt aus einer Antifa-Demo heraus gejagt und zusammengeschlagen.
Als sie die Demonstration filmten wurden sie von ca. einem Dutzend Personen verfolgt und zu Boden geschlagen, als sie am Boden lagen wurde immer wieder nachgetreten… pic.twitter.com/yICrfMvtXo
— Max Mannhart (@maxmannhart) July 4, 2026
German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) is expected to be Canada’s preferred choice to build the navy’s new fleet of submarines, sources confirm to CBC News.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Halifax later today where he’ll put an end to long-running speculation about the future of the multi-billion dollar program which will determine the navy’s future.
I’m liking the Korean Turtle Ships as consolation prize for the surface fleet’s replenishment given the U-Boats have won the day for Germany.
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reaffirmed its ambition to govern the country. Wrapping up the party’s national convention in Erfurt, the capital of the eastern state of Thuringia, re-elected co-leader Alice Weidel was pointing to current opinion polls that see the party in the lead across Germany. “We are the strongest force. We are a people’s party with 30% support. And we will govern,” she said.
Earlier, delegates had confirmed the party’s co-leadership. Weidel, who ran as the AfD’s main candidate in Germany’s 2025 federal election, slightly improved on her result from two years ago, winning 81.3% of the vote. Her co-chair, Tino Chrupalla, by contrast, lost significant support and received just 70%.
Speaking at the Welt Security Summit on July 2, Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperge recounted that Merkel had told the arms sector: “We don’t really need you, if there is a problem we call the Americans.” The dependence on Washington, he suggested, had been a deliberate choice.
He added that prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, there was “no great need for weapons systems in Germany itself” and that companies like Rheinmetall had been pushed into a “dirty corner” because they exported arms.
“They actually didn’t want us here in Germany,” he remarked.
A 45-year-old man, identified as Fatih Khan G. and described as Turkish, shot and killed six employees at a youth welfare facility in Stade on Monday. New details reveal that 65-year-old Sylvia S. of Bremen was behind the wheel of the getaway car, with the woman working as a “migration consultant” for a nationwide advocacy organization within Germany’s migration policy sector, according to Nius news outlet.
Festnahme des Täters von Stade!
Der Täter von Stade wurde auf der Flucht von der Polizei durch Schüsse in die Reifen gestoppt – hier die Festnahme.
Beim Fluchtfahrzeug handelt es sich um ein Mercedes-AMG GLE 43 Coupé (Baureihe C292). pic.twitter.com/0UYhtrJy3t
— Georg Pazderski (@Georg_Pazderski) June 29, 2026
A mass shooting underwritten by the state asylum policy.
When senior members of Germany’s AfD were seen at a secretive “remigration” summit in November 2023, there was a national outcry.
Accused of fraternising with neo-Nazis, Alternative for Germany (AfD) scrambled to distance itself from the summit and dismissed a senior aide who had attended.
But three years on, there is nothing furtive about the hard-Right party’s embrace of remigration, the idea of deporting foreigners en masse that is sweeping across Europe’s populist Right.
Far-left Antifa radicals descended upon the annual conference of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany in Erfurt on Saturday, clashing with police and journalists.
While AfD delegates gathered at the Erfurt Exhibition Centre in the central German state of Thuringia to select party leadership, an estimated 20,000 leftist protesters demonstrated outside of the event, police told Die Welt.
Translation: Brutal hunting scenes and #Violence in #Erfurt: #Leftwingextremists attack journalists they mistake for #Rightwingers, beat them, kick them in the head while they’re on the ground. #Police then forcefully push back the violent offenders with batons and pepper spray!
Brutale Jagdszenen und #Gewalt in #Erfurt: #Linksextreme attackieren Journalisten, die sie für #Rechte halten, schlagen auf sie ein, treten am Boden auf den Kopf ein. #Polizei drängt Gewalttäter danach massiv mit Schlagstock und Pfefferspray zurück! #EF0407 #AfD
Fotos: Jan Ohmen pic.twitter.com/LKt7vAayVv— Frank Schneider (@chefreporterNRW) July 4, 2026
🔴 Drei Reporter von Apollo News wurden in Erfurt aus einer Antifa-Demo heraus gejagt und zusammengeschlagen.
Als sie die Demonstration filmten wurden sie von ca. einem Dutzend Personen verfolgt und zu Boden geschlagen, als sie am Boden lagen wurde immer wieder nachgetreten… pic.twitter.com/yICrfMvtXo
— Max Mannhart (@maxmannhart) July 4, 2026
A GUNMAN who killed six people in a shooting rampage at a mother-and-child home over a custody dispute is allegedly a paedophile prison escapee.
Fatih Gazioglu, 45, is accused of opening fire at a facility where his child and the boy’s mum reportedly lived at in Stade, Germany.
German police are preparing for one of the largest security operations in Thuringia’s history ahead of the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) federal party congress in Erfurt this weekend after an internal threat assessment warning of an elevated risk of violence.
The assessment, obtained by Apollo News, states that police expect most protesters to come from left-wing organisations, civil society groups, and trade unions.
A video of a German woman describing a “certain clientele” who she says has ruined German swimming pools has gone viral. In the video, she speaks of her childhood memories of a time when swimming pools were carefree and peaceful. Now, she says she fears for her own personal safety and her belongings.
View the video on X for the full write up.
Volkswagen is no longer facing a simple internal restructuring. The German group is considering a downsizing plan that could affect up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and lead to the closure of four plants in Germany—Hanover, Zwickau, Emden, and Neckarsulm (the latter associated with Audi) after previously reaching an agreement with unions to eliminate 50,000 jobs by 2030.
The figure places Germany’s largest industrial company in the midst of its most severe labour crisis in decades.
