https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Bayern Munich and former German national team football star Jerome Boateng, 31, has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking his former partner, German prosecutors confirmed Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190904/bayern-munich-defender-jerome-boateng-under-investigation-for-assault-football Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:40:25 +0200 bayern-munich-defender-jerome-boateng-under-investigation-for-assault-football Chancellor Angela Merkel led condemnations Tuesday of a "politically motivated" gang attack against a far-right German MP, an assault that underlined the increasingly tense political landscape in the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20190108/merkel-leads-germany-wide-condemnation-of-attack-on-afd-politician Tue, 08 Jan 2019 12:42:49 +0100 merkel-leads-germany-wide-condemnation-of-attack-on-afd-politician An investigation is underway after Frank Magnitz, head of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Bremen, was seriously injured in what's thought to be a "politically motivated" gang attack, police said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190108/german-far-right-mp-seriously-injured-in-targeted-attack Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:16:59 +0100 german-far-right-mp-seriously-injured-in-targeted-attack Berlin police arrested a man on Wednesday evening who they suspect knocked another man down the stairs of an U-Bahn station last month. https://www.thelocal.de/20170714/suspect-arrested-over-knocking-man-down-berlin-u-bahn-stairs Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:35:24 +0200 suspect-arrested-over-knocking-man-down-berlin-u-bahn-stairs Three women were physically attacked and threatened with a knife on Sunday evening when they asked two male cinema-goers to put out their cigarettes. https://www.thelocal.de/20170626/women-attacked-in-berlin-cinema-for-asking-men-to-stop-smoking Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:01:41 +0200 women-attacked-in-berlin-cinema-for-asking-men-to-stop-smoking A investigation by news service Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) carried out in Berlin’s refugee camps has found that women in the camps face "grossly inadequate protection from sexual and gender-based violence." https://www.thelocal.de/20170511/report-finds-wide-spread-sexual-violence-against-refugee-women-in-berlin Thu, 11 May 2017 19:04:34 +0200 report-finds-wide-spread-sexual-violence-against-refugee-women-in-berlin Four police officers are being investigated by Stuttgart prosecutors after a video was posted online showing them attacking a man for refusing to stub out a cigarette. https://www.thelocal.de/20170406/shocking-video-emerges-of-stuttgart-police-beating-man-over-unstubbed-cigarette Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:35:51 +0200 shocking-video-emerges-of-stuttgart-police-beating-man-over-unstubbed-cigarette After the Guardian published allegations that Berlin’s police physically assaulted a terror suspect, the police have accused the newspaper of making up quotes. https://www.thelocal.de/20161230/berlin-police-reject-claim-they-beat-terror-suspect Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:25:57 +0100 berlin-police-reject-claim-they-beat-terror-suspect The man, whose brutal attack on a woman at a Berlin U-Bahn station went viral, has been identified but not arrested, officials said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20161214/berlin-police-identify-u-bahn-attacker Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:46:40 +0100 berlin-police-identify-u-bahn-attacker Two private citizens have come forward, each offering thousands of euros in reward money to whoever can identify the man who kicked a woman down the stairs of a Berlin U-Bahn station. https://www.thelocal.de/20161212/berliners-offer-thousands-of-euros-to-find-suspect-in-brutal-u-bahn-attack Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:03:22 +0100 berliners-offer-thousands-of-euros-to-find-suspect-in-brutal-u-bahn-attack A small boy has ended up in hospital in the town of Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, after two men entered his home carrying weapons and shouting racist insults. https://www.thelocal.de/20161007/5-year-old-hospitalized-in-racist-attack-in-east-germany Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:52:33 +0200 5-year-old-hospitalized-in-racist-attack-in-east-germany A woman reported being brutally attacked at a Berlin bus stop by a man who tried to tear off her headscarf. https://www.thelocal.de/20160804/muslim-woman-attacked-at-a-berlin-bus-stop Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:13:05 +0200 muslim-woman-attacked-at-a-berlin-bus-stop One of the women who claimed to have been raped on New Year's Eve in Cologne was not telling the truth, media reports suggest. https://www.thelocal.de/20160729/cologne-woman-accused-of-false-allegation-of-nye-rape Fri, 29 Jul 2016 11:35:38 +0200 cologne-woman-accused-of-false-allegation-of-nye-rape The German parliament unanimously voted to pass a new law Thursday that broadens the definition of sex crimes and making it easier to deport foreign nationals who commit them. https://www.thelocal.de/20160707/nye-mob-assaults-cologne-rape-laws Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:57:27 +0200 nye-mob-assaults-cologne-rape-laws Two women were sexually assaulted and mugged by a group of around ten men during Berlin's Carnival of Cultures, an annual street parade celebrating the diversity of the German capital. https://www.thelocal.de/20160516/sexual-assaults-reported-at-berlins-carnival-of-cultures Mon, 16 May 2016 17:17:26 +0200 sexual-assaults-reported-at-berlins-carnival-of-cultures A suspect is on the run after wounding another man with a gun on Sunday night, police said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160222/wedding-shocked-by-2nd-shooting-since-christmas Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:37:29 +0100 wedding-shocked-by-2nd-shooting-since-christmas A mother in Bavaria managed to bite off the tongue of a sex attacker who targeted her and her teenage daughter in the early hours of Tuesday morning. https://www.thelocal.de/20150902/erding-mother-bites-off-sex-attackers-tongue Wed, 02 Sep 2015 09:00:25 +0200 erding-mother-bites-off-sex-attackers-tongue When 22-year-old Tugce Albayrak was fatally beaten in a MacDonald's car park in November 2014, Germany was left in a state of shock. On the first day of her attacker's trial he admits to 'boxing her on the ear.' https://www.thelocal.de/20150424/trial-of-tugce-killer-begins Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:10:01 +0200 trial-of-tugce-killer-begins Germany's justice ministers want to toughen up the country's rape laws and make sure that "no" really does mean "no" in the eyes of the law. https://www.thelocal.de/20141104/justice-ministers-seek-tougher-rape-laws Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:22:00 +0100 justice-ministers-seek-tougher-rape-laws UPDATE: A job centre employee has admitted demanding sex from unemployed former prostitutes in exchange for work, prosecutors in Stuttgart said on Tuesday. He is now facing sexual assault and bribery charges. https://www.thelocal.de/20140701/job-centre-adviser-demanded-sex-for-work-germany Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:38:00 +0200 job-centre-adviser-demanded-sex-for-work-germany