The Local Germany

Health insurance told to pay for ex-prostitute to have tattoo removed

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:03:18 +0200

A woman who was forced by her pimp to get a tattoo bearing his name on her neck has won the right to have it removed at the cost of her health insurance company.

German politician jailed for Nazi death camp tattoo

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:35:38 +0100

A German court on Monday sentenced a far-right local politician to eight months in jail after he was spotted at a swimming pool with a tattoo of a Nazi slogan and a rendering of the Auschwitz death camp.

Far-right councillor gets jail term for Nazi tattoo

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:11:53 +0100

A politician from Germany’s far right National Democratic Party (NPD) was handed a six-month suspended sentence on Tuesday for displaying his Nazis tattoo in public.

Berlin neo-Nazi charged over Auschwitz tattoo

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 09:25:57 +0100

German prosecutors laid charges Wednesday against a far-right local politician over a tattoo bearing a notorious Nazi concentration camp slogan and a picture of Auschwitz.

American tattooist axe killer jailed for ten years

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:26:00 +0200

An American tattooist who hacked a man to death with an axe was jailed for more than ten years on Thursday after a German court found him guilty of manslaughter.

American tattooist admits Berlin axe killing

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:08:00 +0200

A US tattoo artist who chopped up another tattooist with an axe could be locked up for life as a German court heard on Monday that he killed with "particular savagery."

Tattoo removal on the rise in Germany

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:42:00 +0200

Tribal style lower-back tattoos known as Arschgeweih, or “ass antlers” in Germany, were popular in the 1990s. But now a herd of Germans are stampeding to get them removed as they and other tattoos go out of fashion.