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 A 17-year-old knife attacker goes on trial in Darmstadt for the Christmas-time attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend - the one of several such attacks recently. https://www.thelocal.de/20180803/knife-attack-trial-re-ignites-refugee-debate-amid-far-right-anti-immigrant-sentiment Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:00:00 +0200 knife-attack-trial-re-ignites-refugee-debate-amid-far-right-anti-immigrant-sentiment Police shot and wounded a man brandishing a knife inside Berlin's main cathedral on Sunday but said there was no indication the assailant had a "terrorist" motive. https://www.thelocal.de/20180604/police-shoot-knife-wielding-man-at-berlin-cathedral-terror-ruled-out Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:54:13 +0200 police-shoot-knife-wielding-man-at-berlin-cathedral-terror-ruled-out Berlin police said on Tuesday they were unable to rule out an Islamist background after a "deranged" Syrian knifeman was arrested over an attack in one of the German capital's underground stations. https://www.thelocal.de/20180102/police-probe-berlin-knife-attacker-for-islamist-motive Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:52:51 +0100 police-probe-berlin-knife-attacker-for-islamist-motive A volatile asylum debate looked set to reopen in Germany on Saturday weeks ahead of parliamentary elections, after a failed asylum seeker killed one person and wounded five with a knife in the northern city of Hamburg. https://www.thelocal.de/20170729/hamburg-knife-attack-stokes-refugee-debate-as-german-vote-nears Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:58:28 +0200 hamburg-knife-attack-stokes-refugee-debate-as-german-vote-nears On Sunday evening, a 21-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker killed a woman and injured five people with a carving knife in the southwest German city of Reutlingen - the third attack to hit Germany in a week. https://www.thelocal.de/20160725/what-we-know-about-reutlingen-machete-attack-bavaria-germany Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:54:52 +0200 what-we-know-about-reutlingen-machete-attack-bavaria-germany The attack carried out on a Bavaria train by an Afghan refugee was the first in Germany to be claimed by Isis - and has left many asking questions. https://www.thelocal.de/20160719/why-do-young-afghans-flee-to-germany-and-how-radical-are-they Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:20:00 +0200 why-do-young-afghans-flee-to-germany-and-how-radical-are-they A man attacked passengers travelling on a regional train with a knife and an axe on Monday evening, leaving five people injured, two critically. The attacker, a 17-year-old Afghan, was killed by police as he tried to flee the scene. https://www.thelocal.de/20160719/what-we-know-about-the-bavarian-train-knife-axe-attacker Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:02:49 +0200 what-we-know-about-the-bavarian-train-knife-axe-attacker A Munich man got in a spot of bother with the law on Wednesday after offering to clean one of the city’s main train stations. https://www.thelocal.de/20160615/munich-man-collared-by-cops-after-offering-to-clean-station Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:29:41 +0200 munich-man-collared-by-cops-after-offering-to-clean-station A German man who killed one person and wounded three in an apparently random knife attack will be held in a psychiatric hospital not a jail, police said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160512/munich-knife-attacker-sent-for-psychiatric-care Thu, 12 May 2016 10:47:20 +0200 munich-knife-attacker-sent-for-psychiatric-care There is no evidence that a man arrested for an early-morning knife attack outside Munich is linked to terrorist individuals or organizations, police said on Tuesday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.de/20160510/no-evidence-munich-attacker-linked-to-terrorism-police Tue, 10 May 2016 17:39:54 +0200 no-evidence-munich-attacker-linked-to-terrorism-police Police arrested a man at a local train station outside Munich early on Tuesday morning after he wounded four people with a knife, one of them fatally. https://www.thelocal.de/20160510/four-hurt-knife-attack-munich Tue, 10 May 2016 10:32:35 +0200 four-hurt-knife-attack-munich Germany on Friday put on trial a man accused of stabbing Cologne's mayor in the neck in a suspected violent protest against her welcoming stance towards refugees. https://www.thelocal.de/20160415/trial-begins-of-man-who-slashed-cologne-mayor Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:55:59 +0200 trial-begins-of-man-who-slashed-cologne-mayor Two drunk men broke into a refugee housing block in north Germany on Tuesday evening brandishing a knife, police reported. https://www.thelocal.de/20150826/knife-wielding-men-break-into-asylum-home Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:21:04 +0200 knife-wielding-men-break-into-asylum-home