Health

Health insurance told to pay for ex-prostitute to have tattoo removed

A woman who was forced by her pimp to get a tattoo bearing his name on her neck has won the right to have it removed at the cost of her health insurance company.

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German politician jailed for Nazi death camp tattoo

A German court on Monday sentenced a far-right local politician to eight months in jail after he was spotted at a swimming pool with a tattoo of a Nazi slogan and a rendering of the Auschwitz death camp.

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Far-right councillor gets jail term for Nazi tattoo

A politician from Germany’s far right National Democratic Party (NPD) was handed a six-month suspended sentence on Tuesday for displaying his Nazis tattoo in public.

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Berlin neo-Nazi charged over Auschwitz tattoo

German prosecutors laid charges Wednesday against a far-right local politician over a tattoo bearing a notorious Nazi concentration camp slogan and a picture of Auschwitz.

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American tattooist axe killer jailed for ten years

An American tattooist who hacked a man to death with an axe was jailed for more than ten years on Thursday after a German court found him guilty of manslaughter.

Crime

American tattooist admits Berlin axe killing

A US tattoo artist who chopped up another tattooist with an axe could be locked up for life as a German court heard on Monday that he killed with "particular savagery."

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Tattoo removal on the rise in Germany

Tribal style lower-back tattoos known as <i>Arschgeweih</i>, or “ass antlers” in Germany, were popular in the 1990s. But now a herd of Germans are stampeding to get them removed as they and other tattoos go out of fashion.