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 Elite police officers reacted to an announcement on Tuesday that their unit was being dissolved due to accusations of bullying by attacking their own offices with a chainsaw. https://www.thelocal.de/20150916/swat-unit-destroy-own-offices-with-a-chainsaw Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:12:44 +0200 swat-unit-destroy-own-offices-with-a-chainsaw 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 The parliamentary commissioner for the German armed forces confirmed on Tuesday that an army hazing scandal involving young recruits forced to take questionable rites of passage is much more widespread than initally thought. https://www.thelocal.de/20100223/25447 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:56:00 +0100 25447 The hazing scandal in the German army, in which young recruits have reportedly been forced to eat raw animal liver until they vomited, has snowballed with more soldiers blowing the whistle on ugly rites of passage, reports said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100214/25247 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:51:00 +0100 25247