A man in a refugee shelter died on Thursday while trying to set his wife on fire, leaving the woman seriously injured and part of the building ablaze, police said.
A German man who allegedly sparked a deadly forest fire in the Canary Islands by burning toilet paper has been remanded in custody, a court spokesman said Saturday.
UPDATE: A German man blamed for starting a wildfire that caused the death of a park official on the Canary Island of La Palma said he was trying to burn used toilet paper.
A quarrel over meal times during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan likely sparked an arson attack that destroyed a refugee shelter, said prosecutors on Thursday.
Police reported that six men have been taken into custody, who were all residents of a large refugee home that went up in flames in Düsseldorf on Tuesday.
A large temporary refugee home in western Germany was completely burned down on Monday night, but a prompt evacuation allowed all the inhabitants to escape unharmed.
A huge cloud of smoke was visible over Hamburg on Sunday evening after a fire broke out at a warehouse in the Veddel district of Germany's "Gate to the World."
Shocked German officials Sunday condemned two "disgusting" incidents involving anti-migrant mobs in the ex-communist east of the country, including a crowd cheering a blaze at a planned refugee shelter.
Four firemen have been convicted of arson in northern Germany after it emerged that they were regularly setting fires so they could heroically extinguish them.
Mystery and tragedy went hand-in-hand in Flensburg, northern Germany on Monday evening, when passersby noticed a woman sitting on a bench suddenly burst into flames.
Federal police said on Thursday that they had arrested a man in Berlin after he climbed over the fence around the Chancellery during the night and threw a Molotov cocktail.
