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 Victims and relatives of one of Germany's worst school shootings will share €2 million in compensation payments, it was confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140205/school-shooting-victims-to-share-2-million-insurance Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:56:00 +0100 school-shooting-victims-to-share-2-million-insurance German lawyers have said they will demand millions of euros in damages from the mother of a boy who killed himself and 14 people and injured a further 14 in a school shooting in 2009, for what they say was a breach of duty on her part. https://www.thelocal.de/20130526/49935 Sun, 26 May 2013 18:39:00 +0200 49935 Figures compiled for Germany’s new National Weapons Registry reveal that there are 5.4 million legally owned guns in the country, making it the world's fourth most-armed nation per capita. https://www.thelocal.de/20130217/48015 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:07:00 +0100 48015 The father of the teen responsible for the Winnenden school massacre is suing the clinic that treated his son before he murdered 15 people in the southwestern German town in 2009. https://www.thelocal.de/20130101/47075 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:40:00 +0100 47075 In the wake of the Newtown school shooting tragedy in the United States, German politicians are calling for tighter weapons laws in Germany, including banning all guns from private homes. https://www.thelocal.de/20121217/46811 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:06:00 +0100 46811 Germany's first national weapons register should be online at the start of next year to provide information about the six million legally-held guns in the country, authorities said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20121120/46273 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:20:00 +0100 46273 Ten years after Germany’s worst school shooting, in which a former pupil killed 16 people before committing suicide, politicians are set to lay the foundations for a national gun-owners’ register. https://www.thelocal.de/20120426/42191 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:20:00 +0200 42191 As details of gun ownership are gathered in Germany for a new national register, it has emerged that 6.3 million weapons are registered in private households in the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20110213/33073 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:40:00 +0100 33073 Nearly two years after a deadly school rampage in the southern German town of Winnenden, the father of the shooter was given a suspended sentence of one year and nine months because he failed to keep the gun used in the killings locked away. https://www.thelocal.de/20110210/33015 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:40:00 +0100 33015 A specially-appointed “lay judge” in the weapons case against the father of the Winnenden school killer has been sacked after he drunkenly abused police officers in Stuttgart, a court announced Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20101109/31057 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:36:00 +0100 31057 Post-mortem results revealed on Tuesday that Sabine R. suffocated her five-year-old son with a plastic bag and that police halted her deadly rampage in Lörrach by shooting her 17 times. https://www.thelocal.de/20100921/29971 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:21:00 +0200 29971 A senior government lawmaker rejected calls on Tuesday for a ban on keeping sports and hunting weapons in private homes after it emerged the Lörrach gunwoman was a recreational shooter who owned the murder weapon legally. https://www.thelocal.de/20100921/29955 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:35:00 +0200 29955 Police on Monday were investigating a possible child custody dispute as the motive behind a bloody rampage by a woman in the southwestern German town of Lörrach that left four people dead. https://www.thelocal.de/20100920/29933 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:40:00 +0200 29933 Four people died and a police officer was seriously wounded on Sunday after an explosion and a shootout that ended at a hospital in the southwestern German town of Lörrach. https://www.thelocal.de/20100919/29929 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:02:00 +0200 29929 The trial of the father of Tim Kretschmer, the teen who shot dead 15 people and himself in Winnenden last year, started Thursday in Stuttgart. He faces charges of violating weapons laws by leaving the gun used in the massacre unlocked in his bedroom. https://www.thelocal.de/20100916/29855 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:40:00 +0200 29855 The father of Tim Kretschmer, the teenager who shot dead 15 people at his former school in Winnenden last year, will not face charges of negligent homicide as previously expected, a court announced Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100506/27017 Thu, 06 May 2010 14:08:00 +0200 27017 Amid memorials on the one year anniversary of the deadly Winnenden school shooting on Thursday, politicians and law enforcement authorities bickered over whether changes to weapon laws have been successful. https://www.thelocal.de/20100311/25809 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:19:00 +0100 25809 Prosecutors in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on Friday pressed manslaughter charges against the father of a 17-year-old boy who killed 15 people during a rampage started at his old school in March. https://www.thelocal.de/20091127/23569 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:16:00 +0100 23569 A 16-year-old girl who tried to firebomb her school in May and attacked a fellow pupil with a sword was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in a juvenile detention centre. https://www.thelocal.de/20091124/23493 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:00 +0100 23493 The father of the boy who killed 15 people in Winnenden last spring faces charges of negligent manslaughter for not securing the gun his son used in the rampage, the Baden-Württemberg state justice ministry in Stuttgart confirmed on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20091112/23227 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:43:00 +0100 23227