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 After the father of a Jewish child at a Berlin primary school told a newspaper about anti-Semitic bullying experienced by his daughter, Germany’s Jewish community called for more action on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180327/berlin-elementary-student-receive-threats-for-being-jewish Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:09:11 +0200 berlin-elementary-student-receive-threats-for-being-jewish A new report shows that one in six German school children faces regular bullying at school. https://www.thelocal.de/20170419/one-in-six-german-school-kids-regularly-bullied-report Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:15:42 +0200 one-in-six-german-school-kids-regularly-bullied-report Officers from Cologne's elite Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK) police unit should be punished for hazing practices they inflicted on new members, an official in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150828/elite-cologne-cops-hazed-recruits-with-body-buffet Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:02:31 +0200 elite-cologne-cops-hazed-recruits-with-body-buffet As footage of violent attacks on children by their peers increasingly finds its way onto the internet, a court in Lower Saxony on Monday handed three-year sentences to perpetrators of a May assault on a 14-year-old girl. https://www.thelocal.de/20141208/state-hits-back-at-bullies-with-stiff-sentences Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:35:00 +0100 state-hits-back-at-bullies-with-stiff-sentences Police in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, warned against calls for vigilante justice on Friday after a video showing teenaged girls attacking a classmate was uploaded to social media. https://www.thelocal.de/20141121/police-warn-off-vigilantes-over-bullying-video Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:03:00 +0100 police-warn-off-vigilantes-over-bullying-video A third of German school pupils have fallen victim to cyber bullying, a study released on Friday revealed. Yet severe cases of online abuse were rare, researchers found. https://www.thelocal.de/20130726/51073 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:57:00 +0200 51073 German troops deployed on the Turkish-Syrian border are being badly treated by their Turkish hosts and NATO partners, a government report said over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20130303/48293 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:49:00 +0100 48293 A German politician whose book criticising multiculturalism caused national outrage is being followed into print by his wife - who has written about being bullied as a teacher in a Berlin school. https://www.thelocal.de/20120501/42275 Tue, 01 May 2012 14:21:00 +0200 42275 A website enabling teenagers to post insults and racist comments about their peers has prompted an outcry in Germany after 20 youths beat another teen senseless over remarks made on its forums. https://www.thelocal.de/20110413/34353 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:51:00 +0200 34353