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 They may be the trendy footwear of choice for Hollywood A-listers and pop stars, but Birkenstock sandals are not works of art, Germany's top court ruled Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20250220/birkenstock-sandals-are-not-art-top-german-court-rules Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:17:38 +0100 birkenstock-sandals-are-not-art-top-german-court-rules A German court has banned a discount supermarket chain from selling a version of "Dubai chocolate" made outside the Emirati city, according to a ruling seen by AFP on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20250114/german-court-halts-sales-of-dubai-chocolate-made-outside-uae Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:58:15 +0100 german-court-halts-sales-of-dubai-chocolate-made-outside-uae Germany's constitutional court ruled Tuesday that the federal police's powers of surveillance and data retention were too broad and ordered a change to the law. https://www.thelocal.de/20241002/germanys-top-court-orders-limits-to-police-surveillance-powers Wed, 02 Oct 2024 10:25:24 +0200 germanys-top-court-orders-limits-to-police-surveillance-powers A German court on Friday began hearing a case against the Volkswagen group brought by a farmer who claims the pollution caused by the automotive giant is infringing on his rights. https://www.thelocal.de/20220520/german-farmer-sues-volkswagen-over-co2-emissions Fri, 20 May 2022 18:14:09 +0200 german-farmer-sues-volkswagen-over-co2-emissions The trial began on Tuesday of a woman accused of stabbing four residents to death and severely injuring another at a German care home for disabled people where she worked outside Berlin. https://www.thelocal.de/20211026/woman-on-trial-over-killing-four-people-at-potsdam-care-home Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:54:56 +0200 woman-on-trial-over-killing-four-people-at-potsdam-care-home A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined the Islamic State group to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun. https://www.thelocal.de/20211025/german-woman-who-joined-is-sentenced-to-10-years-over-yazidi-girl-murder Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:22:14 +0200 german-woman-who-joined-is-sentenced-to-10-years-over-yazidi-girl-murder A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who fled hours before the opening of her trial in Germany has been found, a court said Thursday in a dramatic start to the proceedings. https://www.thelocal.de/20210930/former-nazi-death-camp-secretary-96-absconds-before-trial Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:17:24 +0200 former-nazi-death-camp-secretary-96-absconds-before-trial Police on Thursday searched the German finance and justice ministries in connection with an investigation into hushed-up reports of money laundering, in a potentially damaging case ahead of this month's election. https://www.thelocal.de/20210909/german-finance-and-justice-ministries-searched-in-fraud-investigation Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:43:52 +0200 german-finance-and-justice-ministries-searched-in-fraud-investigation A German court found Wednesday that the violent 2018 eviction of a camp of environmental activists opposed to the expansion of a coal mine, during which a journalist died, was illegal. https://www.thelocal.de/20210908/german-court-rules-anti-coal-eviction-in-hambach-forest-illegal Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:58:59 +0200 german-court-rules-anti-coal-eviction-in-hambach-forest-illegal The "City Hostel" in Berlin may look fairly innocuous from the outside – but it now faces closure in an unlikely legal drama over international sanctions against North Korea. https://www.thelocal.de/20200128/berlin-court-rules-hostel-at-north-korean-embassy-must-close Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:01:21 +0100 berlin-court-rules-hostel-at-north-korean-embassy-must-close An 18-year-old asylum seeker who carried out random attacks on people in the Bavarian town of Amberg in the lead up to New Year’s Eve 2018 has been handed a jail sentence. https://www.thelocal.de/20190510/asylum-seeker-jailed-for-random-new-years-eve-attacks-in-amberg Fri, 10 May 2019 14:46:28 +0200 asylum-seeker-jailed-for-random-new-years-eve-attacks-in-amberg A German court said Wednesday it had dropped a case against a former Nazi concentration camp guard, finding the seriously ill 95-year-old unfit for trial. https://www.thelocal.de/20190403/german-court-drops-case-against-ailing-former-nazi-camp-guard Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:09:59 +0200 german-court-drops-case-against-ailing-former-nazi-camp-guard Several district courts in Germany have been evacuated after bomb threats. According to police, anonymous e-mails were received in Potsdam, Magdeburg, Erfurt, Wiesbaden and Kiel. https://www.thelocal.de/20190111/bomb-threat-to-potsdam-court-leads-to-building-shut-downs-throughout-germany Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:49:51 +0100 bomb-threat-to-potsdam-court-leads-to-building-shut-downs-throughout-germany On Tuesday the European Court of Justice ruled on a case concerning holiday leave in Germany. The case involved the rights that an employee, as well as the deceased spouse of an employee, has to holiday leave. https://www.thelocal.de/20181106/even-death-doesnt-cause-holiday-leave-in-germany-to-expire-court-rules Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:31:31 +0100 even-death-doesnt-cause-holiday-leave-in-germany-to-expire-court-rules A German court on Friday jailed a couple who tortured and killed women they had lured to their village home in what has been dubbed the "House of Horrors" case. https://www.thelocal.de/20181005/german-sadistic-killer-couple-jailed-in-house-of-horrors-trial Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:44:46 +0200 german-sadistic-killer-couple-jailed-in-house-of-horrors-trial An airline passenger is suing police after missing her flight to Mallorca in Spain due to having to wait in a lengthy cue at airport security, German media reports. https://www.thelocal.de/20180921/german-woman-misses-majorca-flight-sues-police-over-long-queues-at-airport-security-check Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:22:14 +0200 german-woman-misses-majorca-flight-sues-police-over-long-queues-at-airport-security-check In the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, economic legal proceedings could in future also be conducted in the English language, according to Rheinische Post (RP). https://www.thelocal.de/20180104/nrw-to-push-for-court-cases-in-english-language-report Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:42:47 +0100 nrw-to-push-for-court-cases-in-english-language-report A family in Munich on Wednesday reached a €90,000 settlement with their gynecologist after a birth control failure resulted in a twin pregnancy. https://www.thelocal.de/20160707/accidental-twin-pregnancy-leads-to-payout Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:55:56 +0200 accidental-twin-pregnancy-leads-to-payout More than 200 people are suing the German government in North Rhine-Westphalia for taking too long to process their asylum applications, a survey by a newspaper showed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160120/200-asylum-seekers-sue-govt-over-slow-work Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:25:45 +0100 200-asylum-seekers-sue-govt-over-slow-work A nurse who admitted to injecting patients with overdoses of heart medication to force resuscitation procedures has expressed his remorse over the deaths and harm to people in his care. https://www.thelocal.de/20150219/killer-nurse-tells-court-hes-sorry Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:37:46 +0100 killer-nurse-tells-court-hes-sorry