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 Fireworks brought play to a halt and tempers threatened to boil over as FC Union defeated city rivals Hertha Berlin 1-0 on Saturday in their first Bundesliga derby since German reunification. https://www.thelocal.de/20191103/fireworks-and-ultra-pitch-invasions-as-union-win-first Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:27:47 +0100 fireworks-and-ultra-pitch-invasions-as-union-win-first German police are investigating an incident in which England international Jadon Sancho was struck by what appeared to be a cigarette lighter thrown from the away block during Borussia Dortmund's 4-2 defeat to local rivals Schalke on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190428/police-investigate-sancho-incident-amid-fan-trouble-in-dortmund Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:24:54 +0200 police-investigate-sancho-incident-amid-fan-trouble-in-dortmund Four police officers were left injured after football hooligans loyal to FC Cologne fought with fans of Red Star Belgrade in the Rhine city on Thursday evening. https://www.thelocal.de/20170929/several-police-injured-after-football-hooligans-brawl-in-cologne-town-centre Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:55:34 +0200 several-police-injured-after-football-hooligans-brawl-in-cologne-town-centre English fans played an impromptu football game in the Old Market Square in Dortmund on Tuesday - and they went ballistic when one of them scored a goal. https://www.thelocal.de/20170322/watch-english-football-fans-turn-downtown-dortmund-into-huge-football-pitch Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:09:03 +0100 watch-english-football-fans-turn-downtown-dortmund-into-huge-football-pitch Borussia Dortmund will close their iconic south stand for this weekend's home Bundesliga match, having on Monday accepted the German FA's sanctions after hooligans attacked visiting fans a week ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20170213/dortmund-to-shut-stand-following-hooligan-attacks-on-families Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:34:01 +0100 dortmund-to-shut-stand-following-hooligan-attacks-on-families Five Russian football hooligans arrested in the German city of Cologne after attacking a group of Spanish tourists have been placed in custody, a police source said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160618/extremely-aggressive-russian-football-hooligans-jailed-in-cologne Sat, 18 Jun 2016 19:59:32 +0200 extremely-aggressive-russian-football-hooligans-jailed-in-cologne Six Russian hooligans returning from the European Championship in France have been arrested in Germany after beating and kicking Spanish tourists, injuring one of them seriously, police said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160617/russian-hooligans-arrested-for-attacking-tourists-in-cologne Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:41:32 +0200 russian-hooligans-arrested-for-attacking-tourists-in-cologne German police said Tuesday they have arrested 211 far-right extremists who went on a rampage on the sidelines of a xenophobic rally in Leipzig, setting cars on fire and smashing windows. https://www.thelocal.de/20160112/hooligans-rampage-at-leipzig-anti-islam-march Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:11:12 +0100 hooligans-rampage-at-leipzig-anti-islam-march Gangs of thugs attacked groups of immigrants in central Cologne on Sunday night after far-right groups called for a "manhunt" on social media. https://www.thelocal.de/20160111/racist-attacks-ratchet-up-tension-in-cologne Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:26:59 +0100 racist-attacks-ratchet-up-tension-in-cologne A game between VfL Osnabrück and RB Leipzig came to an abrupt end on Monday evening after a referee was hit with a cigarette lighter. https://www.thelocal.de/20150811/attack-on-referee-halts-football-match Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:44:09 +0200 attack-on-referee-halts-football-match A Cologne judge sentenced a 24-year-old man to three years in prison after convicting him of violent acts during a “Hooligans against Salafists” (HoGeSa) demonstration in October 2014. https://www.thelocal.de/20150805/hooligan-sentenced-over-cologne-mass-rampage Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:50:10 +0200 hooligan-sentenced-over-cologne-mass-rampage Police in Nuremberg arrested 125 people on Sunday as they gathered in the city centre shortly before the afternoon's football match against Eintracht Braunschweig (Brunswick). https://www.thelocal.de/20150511/police-arrest-125-hooligans-in-nuremberg Mon, 11 May 2015 10:36:47 +0200 police-arrest-125-hooligans-in-nuremberg German police arrested four people on Wednesday accused of belonging to a far-right "terror" organisation that acquired explosives for attacks on Muslims and refugee homes, the federal prosecutor's office said. https://www.thelocal.de/20150506/police-grab-four-in-raids-on-far-right-group Wed, 06 May 2015 12:57:45 +0200 police-grab-four-in-raids-on-far-right-group Dutch far-right populist lawmaker Geert Wilders rallied thousands of Pegida followers in Dresden on Monday to counter society's "Islamization" but failed to draw the record crowds organisers had hoped for. https://www.thelocal.de/20150414/dutch-mp-wilders-rallies-pegida-protesters Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:32:12 +0200 dutch-mp-wilders-rallies-pegida-protesters Cologne's state court ordered a 41-year-old football fan to pay a €30,000 fine on Wednesday after he threw a banger into another section of the stands, hurting seven people. https://www.thelocal.de/20150408/banger-throwing-fan-slammed-with-30000-fine Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:59:24 +0200 banger-throwing-fan-slammed-with-30000-fine Anti-Islamic movement Pegida named its candidate for the Dresden mayoral elections on Monday. Tatjana Festerling will stand in the elections on June 7th. https://www.thelocal.de/20150407/pegida-name-mayoral-candidate Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:52:38 +0200 pegida-name-mayoral-candidate Hooligans, Salafists, Pegida and left-wing counter-demonstrators all descended on the west German town of Wuppertal on Saturday in the first time the groups have all held simultaneous events. https://www.thelocal.de/20150316/four-way-demo-hits-wuppertal Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:59:59 +0100 four-way-demo-hits-wuppertal Secomd-tier league football team Erzgebirge Aue has apologised to RB Leipzig and the team's founder, Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz, after Aue fans displayed a banner showing the Austrian entrepreneur in Nazi uniform. https://www.thelocal.de/20150209/football-club-apologizes-nazi-banners-aue-rb-leipzig Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:04:39 +0100 football-club-apologizes-nazi-banners-aue-rb-leipzig Around 150 people marched through Cologne on Wednesday in the name of anti-Islam movement Pegida, including hooligans and members of far-right party Pro NRW, significantly fewer than last week's 500. https://www.thelocal.de/20150115/hooligans-join-cologne-pegida-demo-hogesa-islam-germany-integration Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:36:00 +0100 hooligans-join-cologne-pegida-demo-hogesa-islam-germany-integration Two men who were savagely beaten by a group of football fans in Bielefeld have been ordered to cover court costs because their jailed attacker has no money, it was reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20141119/soccer-thug-coma-victim-must-pay-court-costs Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:53:00 +0100 soccer-thug-coma-victim-must-pay-court-costs