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 Two men went on trial in Germany Friday accused of more than 400 counts of child sex abuse and running a paedophile ring in Berlin that targeted boys as young as six. https://www.thelocal.de/20170203/two-men-in-berlin-accused-of-hundreds-of-child-sex-abuse-acts Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:16:15 +0100 two-men-in-berlin-accused-of-hundreds-of-child-sex-abuse-acts A high-ranking police officer has alleged that his seniors tried to strike the word rape from an internal police report after the mass sexual assaults in Cologne over New Year. https://www.thelocal.de/20160502/authorities-tried-to-delete-rape-from-cologne-nye-report Mon, 02 May 2016 19:21:11 +0200 authorities-tried-to-delete-rape-from-cologne-nye-report Refugees and asylum seekers were responsible for less than 4% of the sex crimes committed in Germany last year. The chances of a German being a victim of a sex crime committed by a refugee were tiny, leaked figures show. https://www.thelocal.de/20160218/refugees-to-germany-commit-tiny-proportion-of-sex-crimes Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:51:23 +0100 refugees-to-germany-commit-tiny-proportion-of-sex-crimes UPDATED: Police in Cologne have "no leads" on the perpetrators behind dozens of sex attacks committed against women in the western cathedral city on New Year's Eve, officials said at a press conference on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160105/cologne-cant-be-lawless-zone-says-mayor Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:23:48 +0100 cologne-cant-be-lawless-zone-says-mayor