Most of Germany reported that disappointed Euro 2008 fans went home peacefully on Sunday night after their team’s defeat, but there was violence in Hamm, where several people were injured in a knifing incident.
When a group of young people with Turkish and Lebanese backgrounds attacked a bus driver in Berlin, saying "everything is damned German everywhere," many in the German media held it up as a sign of how young immigrant men had grown to hate the majority German population.
A Greek courted has sentenced a 47-year-old German man to life in prison for the murder of his wife. The man remained living in an apartment together with the corpse of his 54-year-old dead wife, which lay surrounded by flowers, dolls and stuffed animals. The man was arrested in the small northern town of Asprovalta last February and stood trial in the city of Thessaloniki.
German gangster rapper Massiv, who was recovering from a gunshot wound, has been readmitted to hospital after a relapse. He is said to be suffering from high fever, cramps and blood loss. The 25 year old rapper was shot on Tuesday night in the Berlin district of Neuköln by an unidentified gunman.