German ministers promised on Friday to ramp up security and put more police on the streets to quell public fears, two days after a racist gunman killed nine people.
A man suspected to hold far-right views killed nine people in a shisha bar and a cafe in Germany, where there has been an upsurge in racially motivated and anti-Semitic attacks in recent years.
A shooter killed nine people in the German city of Hanau in a racist attack. We spoke to anti-terror experts to find out how Germany is reacting and what we can learn.
German investigators said Thursday they suspected a "xenophobic motive" behind shootings at a shisha bar and a
cafe that left 10 dead overnight in the city of Hanau.
A 26-year-old man is believed to have shot dead his mother and father and four other people in a town in southwest Germany on Friday, police said, leaving two others seriously wounded.
The German suspect in a deadly attack targeting a synagogue has admitted to the shooting rampage and confessed that it was motivated by anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism, federal prosecutors said Friday.
The German suspect in a deadly
anti-Semitic attack targeting a synagogue and a kebab shop in the east of the
country was a frustrated, computer-obsessed loner who lived with his mother.
American Rebecca Blady was hoping to spend a
day in retreat from the outside world, turning to fasting and worship at Yom
Kippur in eastern German city Halle. Then everything changed.
Wednesday’s shooting outside of an east German synagogue shook up Germany's quarter million Jews. Here’s why some of them told The Local they are scared - but far from hopeless.
The gunman in a deadly anti-Semitic shooting in the German city of Halle was planning a "massacre" in a synagogue, Germany's chief federal prosecutor said Thursday, calling the violence an act of terror.
After a heavily-armed man shot two people dead, one of them outside a synagogue, in eastern German city Halle, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said there were "signs of a far-right extremist background" to the attack.
The gunman behind the deadly shooting in Halle, eastern Germany, filmed his rampage live for 35 minutes. The footage reveals his anti-Semitism, his cold-blooded and callous killing of two people and how events could have been far worse.
Here's what we know so far about the deadly shooting at a synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany and the background context around a rise in anti-Semitism in Germany.
The gunman in Wednesday's deadly shooting in the German city of Halle posted a video of the attack on the Twitch livestream platform owned by Amazon, the company said.
At least two people were shot
dead on a street in the eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday, police said, with witnesses saying that a synagogue was among the gunmen's targets as Jews
marked the holy day of Yom Kippur. German anti-terrorism prosecutors have taken over the probe.
German police were Sunday investigating the assassination-style killing in a Berlin park of a Georgian man who was reportedly a former special forces commando and Chechnya war veteran.
Police said Tuesday that the drive-by shooting of a 26-year-old man from Eritrea in a small west German town was
"very clearly" motivated by xenophobia.
Prosecutors have opened a murder investigation after a young mother was believed to be killed by a gunshot to the head near the north German town of Kiel while watching a firework show at New Year.
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.
The suspect in the deadly shooting attack at a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg was jailed for burglary in Germany and is said to have shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) before opening fire.
