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 Germany on Wednesday banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre, an association that has been under investigation for several months over its alleged support for Lebanon's Hezbollah group and its links to Iran. https://www.thelocal.de/20240724/germany-bans-islamist-group-over-alleged-links-to-hezbollah-and-iran Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:30:41 +0200 germany-bans-islamist-group-over-alleged-links-to-hezbollah-and-iran A German court sentenced a Syrian-born man on Friday to 14 years in prison for an Islamist knife attack on a train in which he injured four passengers. https://www.thelocal.de/20221223/german-court-jails-jihadist-for-train-stabbing Fri, 23 Dec 2022 14:54:15 +0100 german-court-jails-jihadist-for-train-stabbing Germany on Wednesday banned a purported aid organisation, Ansaar International, accusing it of collecting donations to help finance terrorism worldwide. https://www.thelocal.de/20210505/germany-bans-fund-raising-group-over-islamist-terror-financing Wed, 05 May 2021 12:55:38 +0200 germany-bans-fund-raising-group-over-islamist-terror-financing An Administrative Court in southwestern Germany has upheld a decision to strip a licence from a kindergarten due to supposed Islamist links. The move comes as Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has proposed spying on children with radical links. https://www.thelocal.de/20190327/court-upholds-ban-on-kindergarten-with-salafist-links Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:45:53 +0100 court-upholds-ban-on-kindergarten-with-salafist-links German police told the media that the goal of the attack was “to kill as many infidels as possible”. https://www.thelocal.de/20190322/police-arrest-11-over-terror-attack-plan Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:23:05 +0100 police-arrest-11-over-terror-attack-plan Police in Berlin said on Monday that they had released six men detained the previous day amid fears of an Islamist attack on a half marathon that drew large crowds. https://www.thelocal.de/20180409/police-release-six-men-after-no-evidence-found-of-plot-against-berlin-half-maratho Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:16:22 +0200 police-release-six-men-after-no-evidence-found-of-plot-against-berlin-half-maratho The number of Salafists in Germany has doubled in the last five years, the Interior Ministry said this week. https://www.thelocal.de/20180405/number-of-salafis-in-germany-has-doubled-since-2013 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:12:03 +0200 number-of-salafis-in-germany-has-doubled-since-2013 The German security services believe that around half of the 720 people who are classified as “dangerous Islamists” do not actually pose a particular terror threat, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20171218/half-of-dangerous-islamists-in-germany-no-longer-considered-a-threat-report Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:32:50 +0100 half-of-dangerous-islamists-in-germany-no-longer-considered-a-threat-report A German police informant has been accused of inciting terror acts - and allegedly had links to the Berlin Christmas market attacker, according to media reports Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20171020/police-informant-encouraged-islamists-to-carry-out-attacks-in-germany Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:02:16 +0200 police-informant-encouraged-islamists-to-carry-out-attacks-in-germany A former German intelligence agent who was also an ex-gay porn actor was on Tuesday given a one-year suspended sentence for attempting to share state secrets while pretending to be a jihadist online. https://www.thelocal.de/20170919/ex-porn-actor-german-spy-guilty-of-trying-to-share-state-secrets-in-islamist-chats Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:32:35 +0200 ex-porn-actor-german-spy-guilty-of-trying-to-share-state-secrets-in-islamist-chats A German intelligence agent on Tuesday said he pretended to be a jihadist planning an attack in online chatrooms because he was bored, as he went on trial for attempted treason. https://www.thelocal.de/20170906/spanish-gay-porn-actor-turned-german-spy-goes-on-trial-for-treason-over-islamist-chats Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:55:18 +0200 spanish-gay-porn-actor-turned-german-spy-goes-on-trial-for-treason-over-islamist-chats One of Germany's most notorious Islamist preachers, Sven Lau, was sentenced on Wednesday to five and a half years in jail for backing a terrorist group. https://www.thelocal.de/20170726/notorious-german-islamist-preacher-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:38:37 +0200 notorious-german-islamist-preacher-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years Two German teens in southern Germany were arrested on Thursday, suspected of planning an "Islamist motivated" attack. https://www.thelocal.de/20161209/two-teens-arrested-over-suspected-islamist-motivated-attack-plot Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:42:35 +0100 two-teens-arrested-over-suspected-islamist-motivated-attack-plot Update: The German government insisted on Wednesday that security measures at its domestic intelligence agency were sound after an agent was unmasked as a suspected Islamist. https://www.thelocal.de/20161130/german-intelligence-agent-exposed-as-suspect-islamist Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:57:13 +0100 german-intelligence-agent-exposed-as-suspect-islamist On Tuesday morning German police raided 200 addresses connected to a now-banned Islamist movement. Ibrahim Abou-Nagie, the movement's founder, has taken it around the world. https://www.thelocal.de/20161115/the-preacher-at-the-heart-of-nationwide-salafist-network Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:30:51 +0100 the-preacher-at-the-heart-of-nationwide-salafist-network German police on Tuesday raided 200 sites across ten states in a probe against an Islamist group suspected of propagating hate and inciting 140 youths to fight alongside jihadists in Syria and Iraq. https://www.thelocal.de/20161115/police-raid-200-addressess-linked-to-against-islamist-group Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:49:21 +0100 police-raid-200-addressess-linked-to-against-islamist-group Update: Federal prosecutors allege that a 27-year-old man arrested in Berlin on Wednesday evening was a member of the terror group Isis. https://www.thelocal.de/20161103/highly-dangerous-terror-suspect-arrested-in-berlin Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:26:05 +0100 highly-dangerous-terror-suspect-arrested-in-berlin Police have arrested five suspected members of an Isis cell in Spain, Belgium and Germany that spread propaganda for the group online, the Spanish interior ministry said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160928/man-arrested-in-wuppertal-as-part-of-european-isis-raids Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:39:14 +0200 man-arrested-in-wuppertal-as-part-of-european-isis-raids German federal prosecutors said Monday they had brought charges against a 16-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed a policeman in February in an operation for Isis. https://www.thelocal.de/20160829/isis-teen-who-stabbed-cop-charged-with-attempted-murder Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:21:50 +0200 isis-teen-who-stabbed-cop-charged-with-attempted-murder A police special forces unit arrested a terror suspect in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, on Wednesday, state interior minister Dietmar Woidke said. https://www.thelocal.de/20160817/police-arrest-islamist-terror-suspect-near-polish-border Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:23:06 +0200 police-arrest-islamist-terror-suspect-near-polish-border