The number of crimes committed by right-wing extremists in Germany jumped to its highest level for at least four years in 2020, according to provisional police figures released on Thursday.
German federal prosecutors said
Wednesday they were investigating an alleged member of the Islamic State terrorist group suspected of a series of acid and arson attacks, and of
planning killings with a gun and explosives.
The German football federation says it is "dismayed and shocked" by a spate of attacks on referees as one match official recovered in hospital after a vicious assault.
An 18-year-old asylum seeker who carried out random attacks on people in the Bavarian town of Amberg in the lead up to New Year’s Eve 2018 has been handed a jail sentence.
More than 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism remains entrenched in German society, Berlin's top legal expert on the matter says, admitting victims sometimes struggle to obtain justice.
An extensive report by the New York Times reveals new details about the structure and tactics used by Isis in Europe, which may shed light on recent attacks in Germany which have been linked to the group.
It is of critical importance for a country how a leader chooses to react to an act of terrorism. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cool head sets an example for the rest of the country.
Speaking for the first time after a Syrian refugee blew himself up in southern Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed her commitment to helping refugees on Thursday.
Following a spate of four brutal attacks in southern Germany last week, The Local spent the morning on the streets of Berlin, asking people for their thoughts on the situation. People from different districts have very different opinions.
Human rights groups and legal experts are warning the government to react responsibly to the attacks and rampages which have taken place in Germany in recent days.
On Friday night, plainclothes police officers were on patrol in the Munich shopping centre where a deadly shooting took place. They were able to spot and pursue the gunman, but their presence also added to the confusion of the night's events.
The attacks carried out by refugees in Germany over the past week show that Merkel's welcoming policy towards refugees was "reckless", the Left Party's (Die Linke) co-leader said on Monday.
The man who blew himself up in Ansbach, Bavaria, on Sunday evening, injuring 15 people, recorded a video in which he pledged his allegiance to terror group Isis.
Pupils and parents at the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Cologne have accused police of being too slow to react after a huge fight at the school involving 200 people led to students being hospitalized.
The knife-wielding man who attacked a Paris police station on Thursday reportedly had a cell phone on him containing a German sim card, French officials said on Friday.
Police in Aachen are set to apologize to the seven people they arrested on Tuesday in the hunt for a key suspect in the Paris terrorist attacks. All seven were released hours after their arrest, without charge.
There are nearly 8,000 radical Salafists in Germany, while 750 Germans have gone to wage jihad in the Middle East. The Local looks at the state of Islamist extremism in Germany today.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she will meet with ministers over the series of attacks in Paris, as she pledged to "do everything" to help France in its fight against terrorists.
A journalist for Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel said on Facebook he was tracked down and physically attacked on the street by right wing thugs in Berlin on Friday after writing a column about xenophobia.
