Employees of an outdoor swimming pool complex in Berlin have penned a letter to Der Tagesspiegel newspaper complaining about perpetrators they describe as “mainly Arab migrants and Chechens” who are engaging in sexual harassment of women and mass brawls on the premises, while also leaving the complexes in disgusting conditions.
‘Letzte Generation’—or ‘the Last Generation’—Germany’s leading extremist climate alarmist group, will not be classified as a criminal organisation despite having engaged in as many as 580 criminal offences since 2022.
On Wednesday, July 19th, the Berlin Senate Justice Department announced the result of its reviews into the activity of the group and stated that it did not believe it was needed to classify Last Generation as a criminal organisation, according to a report in Die Welt.
Deprived of Russian natural gas, and having closed its nuclear plants, Germany is also behind on its wind energy goals.
A new report from the wind energy association Bundesverband WindEnergie shows that the country is far off from meeting its targets for wind energy installations—an important factor in achieving its set goal of producing 80% of electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
The report showed that though windmill installation was speeding up, “the expansion falls short of the requirements for reliably achieving an expansion target of 115 GW in 2030.”
As temperatures across Europe have soared over the summer, many living in some of Europe’s larger cities attempt to beat the heat by attending outdoor pools—and the German capital of Berlin is no exception.
However, after a number of recent incidents of large-scale violence, many in the German capital are calling for more to be done to prevent violence from youths, described by Christian Democratic Union (CDU) general secretary Carsten Linnemann as often being from migrant backgrounds, Deutsche Welle reports.
German hard-right coup plotters were due to meet with a Russian diplomat before being arrested, it has emerged.
Three businessmen involved in eccentric aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss’s plan to overthrow Germany’s government and replace it with a pro-Russian monarchy had been invited to a meeting at the Russian Consulate General in Leipzig on Dec 8 last year, public broadcaster MDR reported.
Berlin’s city government announced on Thursday that it would require ID to enter outdoor pools.
The move comes after repeated outbreaks of violence at the facilities.
Visitors will be required to purchase personalized tickets in advance online and identify themselves at the entrance.
The city announced that at two pools, located in the Neukölln and Kreuzberg neighborhoods, video surveillance and mobile police guards would be in place.
Last weekend, a fight broke out among 50 youths at a slide at a Neukölln pool.
Amid sky-high polling figures for the AfD that have the country’s establishment spooked, a new opinion survey that examined the demographic profiles of those who support the conservative, anti-globalist party revealed that, unlike before, they come from all social classes, ages, and education groups.
Whereas in past years the demographic profile of the party’s supporters tended to be older, less educated, and under-employed, now, according to an opinion survey carried out by the Institute for New Social Answers (INSA)—a prestigious German political and market research firm—AfD voters and sympathizers, people whom the Thuringian state spy boss calls the ‘brown dregs of German society’ are increasingly young, educated, and wealthy.
At least 26 police officers were injured on Saturday at an Eritrean cultural event in the western German city of Giessen.
Police said they were pelted with items, including stones, bottles and smoke bombs as groups of Eritreans opposed to the African nation’s autocratic ruler tried to force their way to the venue.
Long story short, the festival was hosted by Pro-Regime Eritreans and was rushed by Anti-Regime Eritreans.
Schwerer, tätlicher #Angriff auf #Polizisten in #Gießen. #Angreifer die sich so verhalten tun dies, weil sie keine #Konsequenzen fürchten…#EritreaFestival #Eritrea #Giessen pic.twitter.com/PcPTBlcDUg
— Dr. David Lütke (@DrLuetke) July 8, 2023
Ich möchte ausdrücklich NICHT auf #Gießen aufmerksam machen!
Ausdrücklich NICHT!
Es ist nur ein Fest der Kulturen 🤦🏻♂️🙄 pic.twitter.com/DzillDrlP2— McCrushi (@McCrushi) July 8, 2023
The suspects arrested in Germany had also been collecting money for Islamic State since April 2022 and repeatedly transferred it to the group abroad.
German police arrested seven people on Thursday on suspicion of founding a terrorist organization with the aim of carrying out high-profile attacks similar to Islamic State, prosecutors said.
The Turkmen, Tajik, and Kyrgyz nationals arrested in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia had known each other for a long time and entered the country from Ukraine shortly after the war began in 2022, said prosecutors.
A regional court in the southern German city of Ulm on Tuesday sentenced a 27-year-old man to life in prison for murder and attempted murder following a knife attack on two schoolgirls last year.
The killing, as the girls walked to catch their morning school bus, prompted a wave of shock and anger across Germany.
Fresh on the heels of a breakthrough victory in Thuringia, where the conservative, antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had its candidate—for the first time in the party’s history—elected to serve as the district administrator in Sonneberg, the AfD took yet another historic step forward this weekend as its candidate won a mayoral election in Saxony-Anhalt.
The German right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won an absolute majority in local elections for the first time ever. The government-funded German Jewish Council was appalled, but AfD is the most pro-Israel party in Germany.
A wave of outrage and disgust from around the world greeted the election of a modest lawyer named Robert Sesselmann to the provincial office of county commissioner in Sonneberg, Thuringia, a woodland province in Eastern Germany. The reactions must seem familiar to Israeli voters who support the Conservative government Netanyahu VI. You would think they elected Itamar Ben-Gvir as police minister.
The attention showered on an obscure by-election for the humble office of county commissioner in East Germany’s tiniest county is quite astounding. The real reason for the outburst, of course, is the nationwide upsurge in support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The Catholic church in Germany has revealed it is losing followers like never before, with more than half a million people deciding to renounce their membership last year.
According to the Bonn-based German Bishops’ Conference, 522,821 people left the church in 2022, a number far surpassing predictions made by the institution itself and higher than most observers had expected. The previous record year for departures was in 2021, when just under 360,000 people left.
For the first time in Germany, the AfD has won a district council election, administrators announced on Sunday.
Voters in the central German town of Sonneberg elected AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann at the expense of incumbent district administrator Jürgen Köpper of the CDU.
In the runoff election in the Thuringian district of Sonneberg, Sesselmann won 52.8% of the vote, earning him the necessary absolute majority, according to election officials.
German judge said they had enough castor beans to produce ricin capable of killing as many as 13,500 people. It is the second such case in Germany in recent years.
Earlier this year in January, two brothers were arrested by German police following a raid on their home in the town of Castrop-Rauxel near the city of Dortmund, as police asserted that the two Iranian nationals were radical Islamic extremists plotting a mass casualty terrorist attack.
Now, five months following their arrest, the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office has indicted 26-year-old Jalal J., the younger of the two brothers, for plotting a terrorist attack and trying to create a biological weapon, a report from the German tabloid Bild reveals.
