Dec
A European satellite operator has stopped broadcasting the Russian state-run channel RT via satellite just days after its launch. German regulators said the channel did not have a license to operate. European satellite operator Eutelsat on Wednesday halted the broadcasting of the German-language channel of Russian state broadcaster RT, German regulators said. The move came […]
Dec
The perpetrator of a killing spree in the city of Hanau last year acted alone, German prosecutors announced on Thursday following almost two years of investigations. The conclusion from the Office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe was that 43-year-old far-right extremist Tobias R. — who killed nine people with migrant roots, as well as […]
Dec
Germany did not grant citizenship to the woman who refused to shake hands with the male officer. A Muslim woman’s application for German citizenship was rejected on the grounds that she did not shake hands with the officer. The woman, whose citizenship application was rejected, learned the reason by letter. The Rastatt district of Baden-Württemberg, […]
Oct
Three minors who had thrown a Molotov cocktail at the apartment of a Turkish family in Germany’s Solingen were released by a court, one of the victims said Sunday. Sibel Işini, a mother of three and a victim of the attack, in which she injured her hand, told Anadolu Agency (AA) she has not slept […]
Oct
Germany wants pandemic aid money back The Turkish businessman living in Germany said that he wanted the government’s 9 thousand euros of corona support back to his company. Due to the coronavirus epidemic, governments around the world have introduced new aid packages for businesses that are in economic distress. The aid was aimed at keeping […]
Oct
Germany’s interior minister offered to send border control officers to Poland to help the country manage the influx of refugees seeking to enter the European Union from Belarus, adding that Germany could also offer logistical support. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has suggested that a “significant” increase in support on the Polish side of the […]
Oct
German authorities have opened an investigation into accusations against a group of army reservists that they plotted to kill migrants, “Der Spiegel” magazine reported on Friday. The prosecutor’s office of the city of Lüneburg suspects a military group, made up of former paratroopers and army reservists from the Land of Lower Saxony (north-west), of having […]
Sep
Steinmeier says Germany need to take responsibility for colonialism During the opening of two new exhibitions at Berlin’s new Humboldt Forum museum complex, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged for shared responsibility for the consequences of colonialism. During a ceremony to open the first sections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art on […]
Sep
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has secretly bought the controversial Israeli spy software Pegasus to monitor suspects, a local media outlet reported on Tuesday. The BKA, a subordinate agency of the German Interior Ministry, finalized a contract with Israeli company NSO Group despite serious legal concerns, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit reported, citing security […]
Jul
Berlin police on Wednesday announced that it had raided apartments and rooms connected to five of its officers after it was found that they had shared racist and anti-government content in an online chat group with 12 members. The officers were said to have distributed images and caricatures depicting racist, right-wing imagery as well as […]
