Germany's foreign minister voiced fears Sunday that the country's reputation could be harmed after a building earmarked to house asylum seekers was set ablaze.
Unknown attackers threw a Molotov cocktail at one of the Bundestag buildings in Berlin at around 2:30 am on Monday, but failed to set the offices ablaze.
Police are urgently searching for a man who allegedly set fire to the hair of young women in Berlin underground train stations, after a fresh report of another incident at Ostbahnhof.
A German tabloid that reprinted cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo lampooning the Prophet Mohammed was targeted in a firebombing on Sunday, police said.
Police are investigating reports that workers were smoking at a building site where a gas pipe exploded in Ludwigshafen on Thursday, killing one person and destroying part of the town.
It will take several days to find out what caused a massive explosion on Thursday which rocked a town on the Rhine, killing a builder and injuring 26 others.
Police have launched a probe into attempted arson after two Molotov cocktails were thrown at a centre for asylum seekers in the early hours of Sunday morning in northern Germany.
Investigators believe a Molotov cocktail thrown at the Reichstag building in Berlin early on Monday morning was the work of a far-right group, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
An engineer who was called to fix a defect at a chemical waste plant which then exploded has died of his injuries – six days after the huge blast near Bremen.
UPDATE: A massive chemical explosion injured several people and damaged buildings and homes in the town of Ritterhude, near Bremen, on Tuesday night. All 14,000 people in the town were warned to stay indoors.
Police on Tuesday arrested four men, three of whom admitted starting the fires that raged through Berlin's abandoned Spreepark theme park on Sunday night.
A fire destroyed large swathes of the remaining buildings at an abandoned theme park in Berlin overnight on Sunday. Boats were called in to help quell the flames caused by a suspected arson attack at Spreepark.
Firefighters are battling a huge fire which has caused several millions of euros worth of damage in a sugar silo in central Germany and disrupted trains.
