The German state of Hesse on Thursday said it was dissolving Frankfurt's elite police force after several officers wereaccused of participating in far-right online chats and swapping neo-Nazi
symbols.
German prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened a probe against 20 police officers, including elite commandos, accused of taking part in far-right online chats and swapping Nazi symbols.
German police have arrested a man they suspect of sending threatening letters inspired by a shadowy neo-Nazi cell
that committed a string of racist murders in the 2000s, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Two men have been arrested over a series of
arson and threats in Berlin in what investigators believe are far-right
motivated crimes, prosecutors in the German capital said Wednesday.
Far-right militants in Europe and the US are
increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to
attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a
study commissioned by the German foreign ministry said Friday.
German police have arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of cannibalism after they found a pile of bones stripped
completely of flesh in a Berlin suburb.
German federal prosecutors have charged 12
alleged far-right conspirators suspected of planning "terrorist attacks" on
politicians, asylum-seekers and Muslims, security service sources told AFP
Thursday.
German police said Friday they are raiding
apartments and offices over possible links to the Austrian Islamic State
sympathiser who went on a deadly gun rampage in central Vienna.
Federal police are to step up their checks at border crossings, such as airports, and on long-distance trains, to check people are complying with coronavirus rules.
German police said Monday they are
investigating an incident in which a man wearing a mask depicting French
President Emmanuel Macron was insulted and dragged through a Berlin street on
a leash.
A knife attack that killed one tourist and seriously injured another in the German city of Dresden two weeks ago is being treated as a terrorist attack, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Right-wing extremism is not a systemic problem in the German police despite hundreds of examples documented in a new report, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Tuesday.
Germany was set to publish a much-anticipated report on right-wing extremism in its security forces on Tuesday after a string of scandals over far-right networks in the police and military.
More than 200 police in western Germany swooped on colleagues accused of spreading "repulsive" far-right propaganda in online chatrooms, a state interior minister said on Wednesday.
The head of the German Medical Association says police and public order authorities should monitor quarantine orders of people returning from abroad to relieve health officials.
Film footage showing German cops kicking and punching a suspect in Frankfurt last weekend has fuelled a debate about whether violence and racism are problems in German policing.
A man has caused a series of motorway accidents in Berlin, injuring six people including three seriously in what
German prosecutors Wednesday described as an Islamist act.
German police are searching for a group of men who attempted to rob a Berlin bank in broad daylight on Tuesday, the second such bid the capital has seen in days.
Prosecutors said Monday they arrested a
former police officer and his wife who they suspect of having sent threatening
emails to politicians and other public figures across Germany, signing them
off with a neo-Nazi reference.
A wave of threatening messages sent to
politicians and other public figures in Germany is larger than previously
thought, it emerged Tuesday, deepening a row over possible far-right links in
a regional police force.
In scenes reminiscent of the film "Rambo", police in Germany's Black Forest are hunting for a homeless man wearing combat gear and armed with a bow and arrow among other weapons.
German police are facing growing accusations
of links with the far-right scene after a police computer was used to search
for details of a left-wing MP who received death threats.
