Police

Elite cops destroy offices in chainsaw tantrum

Elite police officers reacted to an announcement on Tuesday that their unit was being dissolved due to accusations of bullying by attacking their own offices with a chainsaw.

Police

Elite cops' hazing ritual: eat ice cream off thighs

Officers from Cologne's elite Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK) police unit should be punished for hazing practices they inflicted on new members, an official in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said on Thursday.

Hazing

Bundeswehr hazing scandal widens

The parliamentary commissioner for the German armed forces confirmed on Tuesday that an army hazing scandal involving young recruits forced to take questionable rites of passage is much more widespread than initally thought.

Crime

Army ritual abuse scandal spreads

The hazing scandal in the German army, in which young recruits have reportedly been forced to eat raw animal liver until they vomited, has snowballed with more soldiers blowing the whistle on ugly rites of passage, reports said Sunday.