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 More than 500 police officers have launched a series of raids across the western state of North-Rhine Westphalia, targeting an Iraqi crime gang. https://www.thelocal.de/20190522/police-launch-raids-across-western-germany-targeting-iraqi-motorcycle-gang Wed, 22 May 2019 11:19:19 +0200 police-launch-raids-across-western-germany-targeting-iraqi-motorcycle-gang So-called criminal family 'clans' have been operating in parts of Germany for decades. Now the scale of the problem has been revealed in one western state for the first time. https://www.thelocal.de/20190516/crime-committed-by-clans-plagues-west-german-state-police Thu, 16 May 2019 10:47:31 +0200 crime-committed-by-clans-plagues-west-german-state-police Berlin’s central Alexanderplatz witnessed shocking scenes on Thursday when hundreds of social media users invaded the square to confront each other. Video footage has emerged of the mass brawl, which has naturally ended up on social media sites. https://www.thelocal.de/20190322/video-footage-shows-shocking-alexanderplatz-social-media-brawl Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:33:28 +0100 video-footage-shows-shocking-alexanderplatz-social-media-brawl Police at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz broke up a mass brawl between 400 fans of two rival social media ‘influencers’, making several arrests and confiscating knives in the process. https://www.thelocal.de/20190322/police-breakup-mass-social-media-brawl-as-400-descend-on-berlins-alexanderplatz Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:08:15 +0100 police-breakup-mass-social-media-brawl-as-400-descend-on-berlins-alexanderplatz Berlin crime gangs of Arab origin have long earned infamy with violence and brazen robberies but now, police warn, they have targeted a new generation of refugees for recruitment. https://www.thelocal.de/20181218/arab-refugees-in-sights-of-berlins-crime-clans Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:17:00 +0100 arab-refugees-in-sights-of-berlins-crime-clans A targeted explosion which ripped through a Kreuzberg Shisha bar on Monday morning is the latest in a series of escalating gang attacks across the German capital. https://www.thelocal.de/20181023/explosion-in-kreuzberg-bar-marks-rising-criminal-gang-activity-in-berlin Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:12:22 +0200 explosion-in-kreuzberg-bar-marks-rising-criminal-gang-activity-in-berlin Two young men had to be treated in hospital on Sunday after they were attacked by a group armed with knives under the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz, Berlin's most iconic location. https://www.thelocal.de/20161107/stabbing-at-berlin-tv-tower-leaves-two-hospitalized Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:29:52 +0100 stabbing-at-berlin-tv-tower-leaves-two-hospitalized One of Germany's most notorious streets became the scene of a violent shootout on Monday evening when a member of a biker gang was attacked by gunmen outside a bar. https://www.thelocal.de/20151229/shootout-on-reeperbahn-leaves-biker-badly-wounded Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:33:57 +0100 shootout-on-reeperbahn-leaves-biker-badly-wounded A shoot-out near Germany's most iconic shopping street, the Kurfürstendamm in west Berlin, left an apparently innocent bystander injured after she was shot in the leg on Wednesday evening. https://www.thelocal.de/20150730/shoot-out-near-kudamm-leaves-bystander-injured Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:37:27 +0200 shoot-out-near-kudamm-leaves-bystander-injured A Spanish judge freed on bail Monday a German suspected of being a top leader of the Hells Angels biker gang on money-laundering and prostitution-related charges, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.de/20150728/alleged-german-hells-angels-boss-bailed-in-spain Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:08:54 +0200 alleged-german-hells-angels-boss-bailed-in-spain Organized criminals are increasingly active in Germany, with the mafia as well as biker and international gangs making headway in the country, according to a government report. https://www.thelocal.de/20141002/organized-crime-on-the-rise-in-germany-mafia Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:18:00 +0200 organized-crime-on-the-rise-in-germany-mafia Members of the Hells Angels gang are seen as violent and secretive, but according to one former member their lives are governed by strict rules - including no buses or alcohol. https://www.thelocal.de/20140505/the-secret-rules-of-the-hells-angels-revealed-by-former-member Mon, 05 May 2014 18:33:00 +0200 the-secret-rules-of-the-hells-angels-revealed-by-former-member The German-born, European head of the Hells Angels motorbike gang was arrested in raids carried out by Spanish police on Tuesday. Officers found him in his Majorcan villa. https://www.thelocal.de/20130724/51029 Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:45:00 +0200 51029 German police have arrested seven men after a gangland fight left one man stabbed to death and his brother seriously injured in hospital. https://www.thelocal.de/20121226/46983 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:32:00 +0100 46983 Police say they foiled a murderous revenge attack by one biker gang on another when they stopped three Scandinavia-based men heading for Germany equipped with explosives, detonators and bullet-proof vests. https://www.thelocal.de/20120801/44087 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:56:00 +0200 44087 As authorities increase pressure on German biker gangs amid an escalating turf war, the two main groups - the Hells Angels and the Bandidos - have forged a truce, a media report said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100525/27403 Tue, 25 May 2010 13:20:00 +0200 27403 In the wake of a bloody biker feud across Germany, the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein has outlawed chapters of the notorious Hell’s Angels and Bandido gangs, the regional government announced Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100429/26875 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:27:00 +0200 26875