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 […]
Jun
In the news of the “Welt am Sonntag” newspaper, it was stated that right-wing extremism is more common in law enforcement agencies in the country than previously thought. In the news that the newspaper based on the information it received from the federal government and the ministries of justice and interior in the states, it […]
Jun
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer called allegations of racist and antisemitic behavior “a slap in the face of all those who serve our country.” The soldiers were in Lithuania as part of a NATO mission. Some 30 German soldiers headed home from Lithuania on Thursday in the wake of alleged racist and antisemitic remarks as well […]
Jun
The Turkish community in the German state of Hessen expressed anger Thursday over a proposed bill that would leave Turkish lessons out of the school curriculum while offering Polish, Chinese, Portuguese and Arabic as a second language option, saying that the bill harms the ‘emotional ties’ of nearly 400,000 Turks living in Hessen. The Hessen […]
Jun
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. In the latest political scandal to rock Germany’s security services, the Hesse state crime office and the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office said they had carried out dawn raids […]
May
Germany has officially acknowledged that it committed genocide during its colonial-era occupation of Namibia, and announced a financial support gesture. German colonisers killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people there in early 20th Century massacres. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Friday acknowledged the killings as genocide. “In light of Germany’s historical and moral […]
May
Muslims in Germany are alarmed over a new law that they say could lead to a ban on Islamic headscarves through the back door. The law, which comes as France debates a hijab ban for under-18s, would allow for German civil servants to be banned from displaying symbols that “reduce trust in their neutrality”. Although […]
