The Aachen police have prohibited environmentalists from demonstrating Saturday in and around the Hambach forest, which will be largely cleared for lignite mining. 'The responsible local authorities see significant dangers to public safety,' was the statement issued on Thursday evening.
A convicted IS helper went to court to prevent expulsion from Germany. The court in Aachen confirmed this on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Tunisian was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in June 2016 for carrying out hand and sports services for the terrorist organization Islamic State.
More than 1500 Dutch protesters demonstrated on Thursday during a visit by the French president Emmanuel Macron to Aachen.
An 80-year-old woman from the German Aachen who committed suicide on Tuesday afternoon, killed 70-year-old motorist with her. The woman jumped from a pedestrian bridge over motorway 544 between Verlautenheide and Europaplatz and came into contact with a passing car.
Train passengers took a driver on Sunday evening near Aachen because the train stopped so abruptly at stations. The travelers hit him drunk before the train. They called the police. Who found that the 30-year-old train driver had drunk far too much.
Just across the border in Germany the body of a murdered man from the Netherlands was found. He was stabbed. The Public Prosecutor's Office in Aachen was unable to say who he was on Monday and when he was murdered, he was about twenty years old.
