The crime figures in Germany show a decreasing trend. In 2017 they declined in all federal states, the most in Bavaria (-28.7 percent). Of the persons suspected of a criminal offense, 8.5 percent were immigrants. In total there are 167,268 cases. That writes the newspaper Die Welt, relying on the statistics of the police. These will be officially published on 8 May.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in a number of German cities to show their solidarity with the Jewish community and to express their concerns about growing anti-Semitism. Many demonstrators wore a yarmulke, the traditional Jewish head covering.
The Central Jewish Council in Germany advises Jews to wear a yarmulke in large German cities. The president of the council speaks in German media about a 'turning point' for the German community.
The Berlin Central Station will be evacuated on Friday to clear a bomb from the Second World War. An important part of the center is also shut down while the bomb of 500 kilos is made harmless.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist George Soros allegedly leave Budapest. The foundation moves the Hungarian office to Berlin, reports the Austrian newspaper Die Presse.
The man on the street in Berlin attacking an Israeli who carried a yarmulke by way of experiment, reported to the police. According to German media, it is probably a 19-year-old refugee from Syria who reported to a police station in the German capital together with a lawyer.
The boy who was molested in Berlin because he was wearing a yarmulke, says he is an Israeli boy from an Arab family, and that the yarmul was meant as an 'experiment'.
In the middle of Berlin's Prenzlauerberg district, a place for the well-to-do bourgeoisie, this week a Jewish boy was brutally molested by Arab assailants with a belt. The student veterinary medicine was mistreated because of his keppeleltje.
An F16 pilot from the military base in Kleine Brogel in Belgium was blinded by the rays of a laser pen on Tuesday evening. A man from the town of Peer is suspected of having blindly dazzled the pilot.
A court in Berlin sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of a retired man and the hiding of the dismembered body in a freezer. He then also illegally received the pension from the elderly for ten years.
The former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont may remain in Berlin pending a decision on his possible extradition. The Schleswig-Holstein court ruled that Monday. As a condition it is stipulated that the separatist leader reports once a week to the police in the German capital instead of in Neumünster, as was previously the task.
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possible deployment of blue helmets in Eastern Ukraine. Both were agreed, according to the German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, that the Minsk agreement must be promptly and completely transformed into action to put an end to the conflict in the area.
The German authorities have released the six men who were arrested on the day of the Berlin half marathon. There is no evidence that they actually wanted to commit a terrorist attack during the sporting event, reports German media.
The police may have prevented a terrorist attack on the Berlin half marathon today. Four men have been arrested. It would be friends of the Islamic terrorist Anis Amri, who with a truck on the metropolitan Christmas market in 2016 at the Gedächtniskirche killed twelve people and wounded about fifty.
The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is settled in Berlin and wants to remain in the German capital for the time being, pending a decision on his possible expulsion to Spain. He said that Saturday at a meeting with the press.
In the winter weather, northern Germany, including Berlin, delivered a white Easter. On the Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to Deutscher Wetterdienst (the German KNMI), 35 centimeters of snow fell locally. Such a thick suit in April was last measured in 1970.
Italian authorities hold their hearts for Easter attacks, the most important feast for Christianity. The outgoing Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti warns that Muslim terrorists have Rome in their sights.
The Italian police rolled up a terror cell that was in contact with the perpetrator of the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin, Anis Amri. The police arrested five suspects in Rome and nearby Latina.
The German Minister of Justice has provided for stricter supervision of companies such as Facebook. SPD member Katarina Barley sat around the table with top employees of the company because of the scandal around data researcher Cambridge Analytica.
Germany is considering stopping EU billions of flows to Poland. If the Warsaw in the cross breaks the independent rule of law in its own country, then Berlin thinks about cutting back the very generous support. That is what minister Heiko Maas of Foreign Affairs said yesterday to this newspaper.
British Secretary of State Boris Johnson has been poisoned with hatred and anger. That said the Russian spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Wednesday, adding that she finds it frightening that he represents a nuclear power.
The new airport in Berlin, which should have been completed seven years ago, can be better demolished and rebuilt. This is what Lufthansa driver Thorsten Dirks said according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine.
Fighting left and right again at the German book fair. In Leipzig, where nearly three thousand publishing houses sell one hundred thousand books in the Messe halls, today it once again came to grime and shouting, pushing and pulling. Half a year ago it came to the world's largest book fair, the Frankfurter Buchmesse, even to disturbances between radical right-wing intellectuals, their supporters and hundreds of left-wing activists.
France and Germany have sharply condemned the attack on the former double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. This happened after telephone conversations between the British Minister Boris Johnson and his counterparts in the two EU countries.
Turkey wants Germany to do more to prevent attacks on mosques in Germany. Ankara had the German ambassador to show him a protest letter, according to German media Tuesday.
Almost half a year after the elections of the German Bundestag, the government parties sealed the new big coalition (GroKo) under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). The leaders of the CDU and SPD put their signature on Monday in Berlin under the government program agreed at the beginning of February.
In Berlin, yesterday, the leaders of the new government were presented. But in the meantime it is bubbling under the surface, in the German province. There the protest against Chancellor Merkel and her ministers is organized by right-wing activists.
It will certainly take until 2020 before toll charges for foreign motorists are introduced on German roads. German media report that on the night from Thursday to Friday.
The German police have solved a 26-year-old infanticide with the arrest of a 65-year-old man in Berlin. The arrested truck driver, according to German media, now knows that in August 1991 he killed the then ten-year-old Stephanie Drews at Weimar.
