German police Thursday at thirty locations in eleven cities search of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia made in connection with an attack with a fire bomb at a Turkish café in Essen in November. Seventeen suspects were arrested, all with a Kurdish background.
The presiding judge in Cologne on Monday eight men sentenced to multi-year prison terms for theft from churches. The booty they wanted to finance the armed struggle in Syria. The penalties ranged from two years and seven months to four years and ten months.
The investigation into the events at the turn of the year 2015-2016 in Cologne, when more than a thousand women were harassed, robbed and assaulted, has been completed. Criminologist and psychologist Rudolf Egg Monday was the last expert witness who was questioned. The inquiry heard the statements of 178 people during 59 sitting days.
In Germany, measures are taken to protect the carnival against attacks involving vehicles.
An aircraft of Eurowings, which was in Oman on his way to Cologne, has made an emergency landing in Kuwait. a suspicious package was found on board, according to the authorities in Kuwait.
Police in Cologne allegations that agents acted rejected racist during New Year night. Police chief Jürgen Mathies said on Monday that the situation was threatening at any point around the central station. 'I've worried me that it also may help turn for the troops.'
Police in the German city of Cologne has surrounded a group of about 150 men on New Year's Eve and monitored at the central station. The police men sternly addressed, some men got a restraining order, and the men who could not identify his firm put.
Police in Berlin have arrested a man in the New Year's celebration at the Brandenburg Gate 'bomb, bomb, bomb 'called. #nichtlustig (not funny), twittered the police ' He celebrates # Welcome2017 with us now. ''
Police President of Cologne Jürgen Mathies, revelers ensures that old and new is safe in his city. 'I promise that you feel extremely safe in the vicinity of the cathedral,' said the police chief of Cologne Thursday in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
Great excitement Tuesday in Cologne, Germany, a day after the bloody attack in Berlin drove a truck on the Christmas market at a stall. However, it turned out to be an accident and not an attack, according to German media Tuesday.
The traditional Christmas market in Aachen suffered Tuesday by the events in Berlin Monday. Exhibitors complained about disappointing visitors. They said they suspect that the terrorist attack in Berlin keeps people at home.
Police in Cologne will hold the New Year on the square near the cathedral with an eye on high-tech cameras. The equipment is part of the stringent security that should prevent scenes like last year repeat itself. The first three devices were hanged Wednesday.
The discovery of a bomb from World War II on Monday part of downtown Cologne for a time paralyzed. For the decommissioning of the US thousand pounder approximately 2,000 people in the district Deutz had to leave their office and another in 1100 their house. The evacuation was uneventful.
Turkey, the German ambassador summoned because of an incident with a member of parliament at the airport of Cologne. Police at the airport held parliamentarian Aysenur Bahcekapili equally fixed because there were problems with her passport.
Can provide the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia wants iodine pills in an accident in a nuclear power plant three million households. Therefore, the state has added iodine pills ordered to have a stock of 21 million tablets.
The German domestic intelligence agency BfV has unmasked its own employee as a radical Islamist. Moreover, the man had plans to carry out an attack on the headquarters of the service in Cologne, according to various German media Tuesday.
The large square in the Cologne Cathedral will stage during the New Year with a big light show. Last year was the celebration on the square completely out of control and came to the police hundreds of declarations in women who were attacked, robbed and sexually harassed.
The German judiciary has sentenced six people so far after the large-scale assaults during past old and new in Cologne. That made the government of North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday, after asking in the regional parliament.
With a magnetic sensor and a wooden tunnel knew a 37-year-old man a reverse vending machine so to build that he is about 45,000 euros with 'deserved'. With his hack he prevented his bottle, 25 cents deposit was swallowed, so he could stop again and again in the same dispenser bottle. 177 451 times to be exact.
In a demonstration, among others Kurds in Cologne it came Saturday to skirmishes. A group of Kurds became clashed with police when one of the demonstrators threw fireworks and was called to account.
The German company Osram, one of the largest lamp manufacturers in the world, has taken an interest in the Dutch Tvilight. That makes smart streetlights. Thanks to sensors that dim for example, when there is no traffic here, so they have to use less energy.
The arrest of another number of Kurdish politicians in Turkey on Saturday to various protests resulted in not only the country but also in other places. Including in Istanbul and Athens riot police had to bear in sight.
A German woman who passed himself off as grieving kin flew twice to the South of France, one time with her two children and stayed there at an excellent hotel. travel for 16,000 euros and subsistence turned the German airline Germanwings on.
The high speed trains Thalys get a makeover. The 26 red-colored trains with eight carriages each to be 2021 all underway. The first renovated trainset has now made a ride, the company announced Monday.
The German city of Cologne gets in the coming new year extra in more than a thousand police officers. The city wants to prevent incidents take place as last year. Thousands of people were doing at the time of reporting sexual harassment, assault and robbery.
Students who live in Germany, more and more money on rent. Berlin rents rose between 2010 and 2016 by 37 percent, in Munich (24.8), Stuttgart (21.4) und Osnabrück (25.2), the increase was slightly less sharply. The rent increase has been studied by the Institute of German science Cologne (IW).
The 12-year-old German boy Eric that severely abused by his young schoolmates, does not permanently damage over there. Since Thursday afternoon, Eric regained consciousness after he was slowly brought out of his coma.
After the aggravated assault of 12-year-old German student Eric German police three children 12 years considered suspects. Eric was nearly beaten to death at a school in western Germany by fellow students.
A twelve year old boy at a school in western Germany probably by fellow students almost beaten to death. The homicide of the German police district Bonn investigating with the Prosecution aggravated assault on a school in Euskirchen, German media reported Friday.
