A search is underway for a missing gun that belonged to a bodyguard who is part of the unit responsible for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as well as former presidents.
The 29-year-old man being sought by police over a shooting in Strasbourg lived in a small apartment in a
ramshackle housing bloc and has convictions in France, Switzerland and Germany after a life of crime.
In an intercity train travelling north to Flensburg on Wednesday evening, a man stabbed another passenger with a knife. A police officer who opened fire to take down the assailant was also hurt in the incident.
Germany has one of the highest rates of gun ownership worldwide, yet also one of the lowest rates of gun-related deaths. The Local looks at some other facts that might surprise you.
Police in southwestern Germany launched a manhunt Monday after a teenager entered a vocational school reportedly armed with a gun, forcing a lockdown, authorities said.
Berlin police on Tuesday night shot and killed the father of a young girl at a refugee home as he tried to attack a man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter.
A special police unit moved in on a law firm's offices in a wealthy area in the east of Stuttgart on Monday after a man was spotted entering hours earlier with a handgun.
As the United States continues to debate gun control in the wake of the Orlando massacre, The Local speaks with a criminologist about how parenting practices rather than laws have made Germans less violent.
An accidental discharge ruined the Bremerhaven police department's plan to demonstrate its firearms on Tuesday, as the stray bullet wounded a local journalist in the thigh.
A new report by Amnesty International blames "decades of poorly regulated arms flows" into Iraq for providing Isis with a huge arsenal of weapons - including some marked "made in Germany".
A woman from Düsseldorf who shot her daughter multiple times before ending her own life this week was trying to stop the teen travelling to Australia, it emerged on Wednesday.
Shots were fired at the Hertha Berlin team bus on Sunday a day before the Bundesliga side play their German Cup clash at Bielefeld in an incident which overshadowed the first round of matches.
UPDATE: Police have taken a man into custody after he climbed Berlin's highest crane late last night, claiming to be armed. 'Kai Q.' has a history of such drastic action.
The tiny western state of Saarland has emerged as Germany's most armed region, according to newly collated figures. The country launched a national weapon's register this month in a bid to keep guns under control.
A young man was apparently shot and stabbed by his girlfriend's uncle following a family argument on Friday afternoon in the southern German town of Heilbronn.
A Munich policeman shot a 49-year-old woman on Thursday evening, after she reportedly threatened him with a knife. The woman died in hospital not long afterwards.
A 14-year-old boy injured by a pensioner’s homemade booby trap returned home from the hospital on Wednesday, police in Dillenburg-Manderbach in the state of Hesse told The Local on Wednesday.
Police on Monday said they were investigating the father of the teenage gunman who murdered 15 people last week in southwestern Germany for negligent homicide.
A German couple going on vacation had to change their travel plans on Sunday after the husband joked to security personnel that the metal objects showing up on airport security x-ray machines were parts of a rifle.
