A court in Munich, Germany, sentenced Beate Zschäpe, a member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), to life imprisonment for ten murders. These were committed in the period 2000 and 2007. Victims were nine migrants and a policewoman.
'Why did they choose my father to be killed,' Abdulkerim Simsek (30) asks with tears in his eyes. His father, Enver, was wound up by his thirty-four million neo-Nazi terrorists in 2000, alongside nine others. On Wednesday, after a five-year monster trial, some of the perpetrators of the so-called 'doner killings' will be sentenced in Munich.
In Germany, the coalition parties CSU and CDU are increasingly at risk of the asylum problem. The right-wing CSU finds the European asylum agreement that Chancellor Angela Merkel closed last week is not acceptable. The party currently holds crisis talks in Munich.
'Oh nein!' Sounds baffled after the German elimination. 'Die Mannschaft ist raus!' Says the commentator full of horror. All those present in the beer cellar Franziskaner in Munich collectively put their hands in the face.
In a family drama in Bavaria three children aged three, seven and nine and their 29-year-old mother were killed.
If the appearance is not deceiving, Merkels `Willkommenskultur 'ends today with the' open borders'. Minister Horst Seehofer (Home Affairs) wants to close the Bavarian border for refugees who have already applied for asylum in another EU country.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appears to have received striking feedback from the US President. 'Trump said to me last week: Jean-Claude, you're a merciless' killer, 'the Luxembourger told during a visit to the regional parliament in Bavaria.
The German head of government Merkel is almost alone with her asylum policy. At the visit of the Austrian chancellor Kurz last night it became painfully clear that Vienna is on the side of Munich and Orbans Hungary. 'If Europe does not function as a unit in illegal migration, great damage can occur, also for the Schengen zone', the chancellor threatened.
Austria thinks that the EU budget should go down considerably after the Brexit. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz argued Thursday at a congress of the European People's Party in Munich that the European Union lost 13 percent of its population after Britain left. Then at a managerial level in the EU austerity measures are appropriate. That is also the Dutch position.
Government buildings in the German state of Bavaria must have a cross with Jesus in the hall from Friday. At the initiative of the minister of the federal state, the parliament adopted in April the controversial 'cross-law' that prescribes it.
A toddler has survived a fall of about 9 meters. The three-year-old boy fell in the German city of Munich from the balcony of an apartment while his mother was away from home, reports the police.
The police in the German city of Munich shot a dog who injured five people in the street. The rottweiler initially attacked passers-by and then also snapped on runners.
A \u0026 # x27; armed grandmother \u0026 # x27; in the underground in Munich, Germany has provoked a police action. Co-passengers saw how the 65-year-old woman, who was in the vehicle with four children, had clutched a pistol under her arm.
About thirty years after the murder of a German backpacker, two suspects were arrested in Northern Ireland on suspicion of involvement.
The police in Bavaria and Customs have seized almost a tonne of cocaine. According to the Ministry of the Interior in Munich, twelve members of a gang of drug traffickers have been arrested. The drugs had been smuggled into Germany in banana boxes.
The German city of Weinsberg (Baden-Württemberg) has given back a painting of the Jewish collector Max Stern, stolen during the Nazi period, and bought it immediately afterwards. It concerns the canvas 'The women of Weinsberg' by the Dutch artist Gerrit Claesz. Bleker from 1624.
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.
Two Bavarian members of the AfD have stepped out of the right-wing populist party because they were discredited by a photo on which they bring the Hitler salute. Markus Schirling and Frank Salloch announced that they are leaving the party of their own free will.
Staff at four German airports put the work down on Tuesday. The airline Lufthansa therefore cancels around eight hundred flights. This has consequences for about 90,000 travelers.
The German auction house Weidler brings an oil painting next week under the hammer that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler. The signed 1916 canvas of 63 by 48 centimeters, according to Werner Maser, who wrote several books about the Nazi leader, the young French Charlotte Lobjoie. Hitler would have had a relationship with her during the First World War when he served as a soldier in France.
Due to a collision between a tourist bus and a truck in the German federal state of Bavaria, one was killed and about twenty people were injured. The broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk reported that the bus came from Belgium.
The German actor Siegfried Rauch (85) was killed when he fell down the stairs. Rauch is one of the most famous German actors. He played in more than 500 films and series.
The German police believe that a Polish nurse who is suspected of having killed a very elderly patient with insulin may have more hair follicles. After a nationwide call, the police discovered at least four cases of very old people who died while the Pool worked in the institution concerned.
After the release of the German journalist Deniz Yücel from a Turkish cell, the Turkish government is hopeful that the tightened travel advice from Germany for Turkey will be undone. That is what the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said at the Safety Conference in Munich.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done a lot to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki who said that Jews also contributed to the Holocaust. Netanyahu called the words of his Polish counterpart 'shameful \u0026 quot ;.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been vigorously accused of Iran at the annual International Safety Conference in Munich. The country is 'the biggest threat to our world', Netanyahu said, holding a piece of a drone.
The demonstration against the Safety Conference in Munich went smoothly on Saturday. About 2000 demonstrators showed up in the center of the Bavarian capital. That was half less than the organization had expected. The dense snowfall could have been related to this.
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov does not want to comment on Saturday on the investigation of the American special prosecutor Robert Mueller. In his indictment, thirteen Russians and three Russian authorities are accused of interference in the American elections and political trials.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to conclude a new security agreement with the European Union, which should be in force next year. She wants to ensure cooperation in the military field and between security services after the country has left the Union, she said at the Safety Conference in Munich on Saturday.
The countries in the Western Balkans must resolve their border conflicts before they can win a membership of the European Union. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said that at the Security Conference in Munich.
