Some 500,000 fewer people visited this year’s Oktoberfest than in 2011, but more revellers boozed to the point of unconsciousness, stats released Monday say. The Red Cross had to deal with more than 800 incapacitated binge-drinkers.
Berlin police are investigating separate shootings that left two young men seriously injured on Saturday and Sunday. Both occurred in the early hours of the morning.
German state prosecutors in Lower Saxony were forced to admit a disastrous gaffe on Friday after they sold a suspected murderer's getaway car – with the weapon still inside.
It took seven years, but Munich police say they may have finally found the man who raped a teenage girl on the sidewalk on her way home from the Oktoberfest festival back in 2005.
Germany's biggest bank has dismissed several traders who systematically helped clients evade VAT, a German newspaper reported. The move is apparently part of a new clean-up drive at Deutsche Bank.
A man who murdered his lover and their child to hide the affair from his partner will spend the rest of his life in prison, a German court ruled on Monday.
As the mornings get darker, getting out of bed could prove challenging for Germans over the next few days as rain, clouds and cooling temperatures set in. Only on Sunday will there be a sunny break in the autumnal gloom.
German police called to the scene of a fatal stabbing were plunged into a mystery worthy of a television series – the man’s former girlfriend who had killed him was still tied up and had been tortured.
Questions were raised across Germany about safety for officials on Wednesday, after a woman working in a job centre was stabbed to death by a client in her office – despite having taken a de-escalation course the day before.
Although the German capital has a punctual and speedy metro system, people using it complain they do not feel safe, particularly at night – a number of well-publicised attacks have failed to result in increased security.
A man who thought he was a vampire and attacked his father to drink his blood was given a three-year suspended sentence on Monday. If he bites anyone again he will have to go to a psychiatric hospital.
A German woman who drowned her five-year-old grandson in the bath to “save him from growing up with divorced parents” escaped the death sentence on Monday, after a US court sentenced her to 21 years in jail for manslaughter.
A pensioner flipped out and shot his neighbour and the car of a passerby who tried to help him, after months of hassle about a noisy dog and loud music, a Berlin court heard on Monday.
German thieves made an explosive miscalculation on Sunday night when trying to blow open cash machine – they used so much dynamite they destroyed the bank – but managed to escape with the ATM.
A man who disguised himself as a pilot and sat in the cockpit of a commercial flight from Germany to Italy had a stash of fake uniforms and identity cards in his garage – just like the film “Catch Me If You Can”.
A German grandpa who raided a bank with a loaded gun was saved from prison by a judge who decided that his motive - to help his sick granddaughter - was honourable.
A man accused of stealing the ashes of his ex-girlfriend’s dead son to blackmail her for €10,000 went on trial on Thursday in a district court in Gera, eastern Germany.
The trial of an alleged far-left radical accused of involvement in the deadly 1975 attack on an OPEC summit began on Friday in Frankfurt, following her extradition from France last year.
German police have been left baffled by a toilet-paper thief in their own ranks after a two-year hunt. The mystery culprit could not be flushed out even after a hidden camera usually reserved for organized criminals had been installed to find him.
Church staff in Dresden, eastern Germany were faced with a €300,000 monthly phone bill after a thief stole one of the parish smartphones and used it to surf the internet and call people all over the world, police said on Wednesday.
Faced with improved ATM security, German credit card fraudsters have started manipulating train ticket machines to steal PIN numbers and bank details, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) revealed this week.
Two British men who stole rhino horns from a museum to sell on the Asian market as medicine and potency drugs were sentenced to prison in Germany on Friday.
Cooler temperatures and scattered showers will be the theme of the weekend for most of Germany, with the exception of Sunday, when the sun should peek through, national weather service the DWD said on Friday.
