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 Parents are being urged to monitor their children's internet usage after a 12-year-old Swiss boy was allegedly abused by a German man he first met online. https://www.thelocal.de/20160629/online-gaming-fears-raised-after-german-kidnaps-swiss-child Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:24:39 +0200 online-gaming-fears-raised-after-german-kidnaps-swiss-child A female German aid worker who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in August has been released and is in good health, said German development organisation GIZ on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151018/kidnapped-german-aid-worker-freed-in-afghanistan Sun, 18 Oct 2015 11:44:46 +0200 kidnapped-german-aid-worker-freed-in-afghanistan Police confirmed on Tuesday that the 17-year-old daughter of a Saxon businessman was found dead near Meißen after being kidnapped and held for ransom last week. https://www.thelocal.de/20150818/kidnapped-17-year-old-found-dead Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:56:47 +0200 kidnapped-17-year-old-found-dead UPDATE: A German national who was kidnapped by gunmen last Friday in southwest Nigeria has been released, police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20141030/kidnapped-german-freed-in-nigeria Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:56:00 +0100 kidnapped-german-freed-in-nigeria UPDATE: American-German journalist Michael Scott Moore was released on Tuesday from more than two-and-a-half years in the captivity of pirates in Somalia. His release came the day a German family was confirmed dead, five years after being captured in Yemen. https://www.thelocal.de/20140923/abducted-german-family-are-dead-yemen Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:03:00 +0200 abducted-german-family-are-dead-yemen Gunmen on motorcycles kidnapped a German national on Wednesday in north-east Nigeria, police said, in the latest assault in the region repeatedly assailed by Boko Haram. https://www.thelocal.de/20140717/gunmen-kidnap-german-in-north-nigeria-boko-haram Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:15:00 +0200 gunmen-kidnap-german-in-north-nigeria-boko-haram The incredible tale of a father who arranged a kidnapping in order to bring his daughter's killer to justice in France avoided prison time on Tuesday for the abduction. The father took matters into his own hands after Germany refused to extradite the suspect. https://www.thelocal.de/20140618/no-prison-for-man-who-kidnapped-daughters-killer Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:57:00 +0200 no-prison-for-man-who-kidnapped-daughters-killer A German-Egyptian writer who was feared kidnapped in Cairo after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists has been found safe and well. https://www.thelocal.de/20131127/missing-author-abdel-samad-returns-to-cairo-embassy Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:38:00 +0100 missing-author-abdel-samad-returns-to-cairo-embassy The German government has called on Egypt to help find a German journalist who has disappeared - feared kidnapped - in Cairo after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists. https://www.thelocal.de/20131125/german-writer-kidnapped-in-egypt Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:22:00 +0100 german-writer-kidnapped-in-egypt Two German citizens kidnapped in eastern Lebanon were freed on Saturday, hours after their abduction, but police arrested them on drug trafficking charges, the official National News Agency reported. https://www.thelocal.de/20131102/two-germans-kidnapped-in-lebanon Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:58:00 +0100 two-germans-kidnapped-in-lebanon Two of three members of a German aid group who have been missing for two months in Syria, and were reported as kidnapped by their NGO, have been found, Berlin said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20130706/50717 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 11:43:00 +0200 50717 German authorities are expected to extradite to France a man accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from her home in southern France. The investigation will also now include allegations of rape. https://www.thelocal.de/20121120/46263 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:00:00 +0100 46263 A man with a long history of sexual violence was arrested in northern Germany after a teenage girl he had kidnapped and repeatedly raped managed to escape and raise the alarm. https://www.thelocal.de/20121017/45621 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:08:00 +0200 45621 A man who kidnapped a young woman in Hamburg is suspected of preparing an elaborate torture chamber for her in his apartment, police said. https://www.thelocal.de/20110824/37147 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:01:00 +0200 37147 A German con man who crisscrossed America using fake identities, including Rockefeller, was charged Tuesday with a 1985 murder, officials said. https://www.thelocal.de/20110316/33745 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:03:00 +0100 33745 Police in the Maria Bögerl kidnap and murder case are increasingly under pressure for their inability to identify the kidnapper or answer questions over why they failed to find her body, and how the money handover went wrong. https://www.thelocal.de/20100606/27679 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:17:00 +0200 27679 Police have come to within arm’s length of Germany’s most wanted criminal, Thomas Wolf , but he is still on the run, having ditched a car and escaped on a bicycle with no saddle. https://www.thelocal.de/20090503/19029 Sun, 03 May 2009 13:38:00 +0200 19029 Police in southern Germany say they rescued a small child from the clutches of kidnappers who had planned to blackmail the family for several million euros in ransom money. https://www.thelocal.de/20090315/18039 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:27:00 +0100 18039 A suspected swindler wanted by the French authorities was kidnapped in Germany by victims who then left him out for the police - tied up on the side of a road - investigators confirmed this weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20090301/17723 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:49:00 +0100 17723