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 German ministers promised on Friday to ramp up security and put more police on the streets to quell public fears, two days after a racist gunman killed nine people. https://www.thelocal.de/20200221/security-threat-from-far-right-very-high-in-germany-interior Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:51:53 +0100 security-threat-from-far-right-very-high-in-germany-interior A man suspected to hold far-right views killed nine people in a shisha bar and a cafe in Germany, where there has been an upsurge in racially motivated and anti-Semitic attacks in recent years. https://www.thelocal.de/20200221/from-the-nsu-to-anti-semitic-attacks-how-racist-and-far-right-terror-in-germany-is-rising Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:43:20 +0100 from-the-nsu-to-anti-semitic-attacks-how-racist-and-far-right-terror-in-germany-is-rising A shooter killed nine people in the German city of Hanau in a racist attack. We spoke to anti-terror experts to find out how Germany is reacting and what we can learn. https://www.thelocal.de/20200220/after-hanau-how-can-germany-deal-with-extreme-right-wing-terror Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:15:42 +0100 after-hanau-how-can-germany-deal-with-extreme-right-wing-terror Several people have been killed in two shootings targeting shisha bars in Germany. Here's what we know so far about the attacks. https://www.thelocal.de/20200220/shootings-in-germany-what-we-know-so-far-about-suspected-far-right-shisha-bar-attacks-hanau Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:31:05 +0100 shootings-in-germany-what-we-know-so-far-about-suspected-far-right-shisha-bar-attacks-hanau German investigators said Thursday they suspected a "xenophobic motive" behind shootings at a shisha bar and a cafe that left 10 dead overnight in the city of Hanau. https://www.thelocal.de/20200220/at-least-eight-dead-after-two-shootings-at-shisha-bars-in-german-state-of-hesse-hanau Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:29:01 +0100 at-least-eight-dead-after-two-shootings-at-shisha-bars-in-german-state-of-hesse-hanau One person has died and four more were injured in a shooting in the central Berlin borough of Kreuzberg on Friday evening. https://www.thelocal.de/20200215/one-dead-several-injured-in-berlin-shooting Sat, 15 Feb 2020 12:14:15 +0100 one-dead-several-injured-in-berlin-shooting A 26-year-old man is believed to have shot dead his mother and father and four other people in a town in southwest Germany on Friday, police said, leaving two others seriously wounded. https://www.thelocal.de/20200124/six-reportedly-killed-in-southern-germany-shooting Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:32:41 +0100 six-reportedly-killed-in-southern-germany-shooting A major police operation at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin on Monday was triggered by shots fired from a blank gun, police reported. https://www.thelocal.de/20191230/suspect-flees-after-shooting-at-berlins-checkpoint-charlie Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:02:08 +0100 suspect-flees-after-shooting-at-berlins-checkpoint-charlie The German suspect in a deadly attack targeting a synagogue has admitted to the shooting rampage and confessed that it was motivated by anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism, federal prosecutors said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20191012/german-suspect-admits-anti-semitic-attack-far-right-motive Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:33:39 +0200 german-suspect-admits-anti-semitic-attack-far-right-motive The German suspect in a deadly anti-Semitic attack targeting a synagogue and a kebab shop in the east of the country was a frustrated, computer-obsessed loner who lived with his mother. https://www.thelocal.de/20191011/german-gunman-was-frustrated-computer-obsessed-loner Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:06:16 +0200 german-gunman-was-frustrated-computer-obsessed-loner American Rebecca Blady was hoping to spend a day in retreat from the outside world, turning to fasting and worship at Yom Kippur in eastern German city Halle. Then everything changed. https://www.thelocal.de/20191011/theyre-shooting-at-us-inside-the-halle-synagogue Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:17:49 +0200 theyre-shooting-at-us-inside-the-halle-synagogue Wednesday’s shooting outside of an east German synagogue shook up Germany's quarter million Jews. Here’s why some of them told The Local they are scared - but far from hopeless. https://www.thelocal.de/20191010/we-were-shocked-germanys-jews-react-to-shooting-outside-synagogue-with-both-fear-and-defiance Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:39:47 +0200 we-were-shocked-germanys-jews-react-to-shooting-outside-synagogue-with-both-fear-and-defiance The gunman in a deadly anti-Semitic shooting in the German city of Halle was planning a "massacre" in a synagogue, Germany's chief federal prosecutor said Thursday, calling the violence an act of terror. https://www.thelocal.de/20191010/latest-german-leaders-visit-scene-of-deadly-anti-semitic-attack-in-halle Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:19:32 +0200 latest-german-leaders-visit-scene-of-deadly-anti-semitic-attack-in-halle After a heavily-armed man shot two people dead, one of them outside a synagogue, in eastern German city Halle, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said there were "signs of a far-right extremist background" to the attack. https://www.thelocal.de/20191010/fears-over-germanys-violent-far-right-grow-after-halle-attack Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:37:36 +0200 fears-over-germanys-violent-far-right-grow-after-halle-attack The gunman behind the deadly shooting in Halle, eastern Germany, filmed his rampage live for 35 minutes. The footage reveals his anti-Semitism, his cold-blooded and callous killing of two people and how events could have been far worse. https://www.thelocal.de/20191010/a-total-loser-halle-gunmans-video-reveals-anti-semitism-callous-killings-and-blundering-attempts-at-mass-murder Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:43:20 +0200 a-total-loser-halle-gunmans-video-reveals-anti-semitism-callous-killings-and-blundering-attempts-at-mass-murder Here's what we know so far about the deadly shooting at a synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany and the background context around a rise in anti-Semitism in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20191009/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-shootings-in-halle-germany-east Wed, 09 Oct 2019 23:40:30 +0200 what-we-know-so-far-about-the-shootings-in-halle-germany-east The gunman in Wednesday's deadly shooting in the German city of Halle posted a video of the attack on the Twitch livestream platform owned by Amazon, the company said. https://www.thelocal.de/20191009/halle-shooter-posted-video-on-twitch-livestream-platform-gunman-germany Wed, 09 Oct 2019 23:08:20 +0200 halle-shooter-posted-video-on-twitch-livestream-platform-gunman-germany At least two people were shot dead on a street in the eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday, police said, with witnesses saying that a synagogue was among the gunmen's targets as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur. German anti-terrorism prosecutors have taken over the probe. https://www.thelocal.de/20191009/two-killed-in-shooting Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:13:00 +0200 two-killed-in-shooting German police were Sunday investigating the assassination-style killing in a Berlin park of a Georgian man who was reportedly a former special forces commando and Chechnya war veteran. https://www.thelocal.de/20190825/police-probe-georgians-execution-in-berlin-park Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:10:44 +0200 police-probe-georgians-execution-in-berlin-park Police said Tuesday that the drive-by shooting of a 26-year-old man from Eritrea in a small west German town was "very clearly" motivated by xenophobia. https://www.thelocal.de/20190723/xenophobic-motive-behind-shooting-of-eritrean-man-near-frankfurt Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:18:04 +0200 xenophobic-motive-behind-shooting-of-eritrean-man-near-frankfurt