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20 April 2018 by AFP
German neo-Nazis mass for festival on Hitler's birthday Hundreds of neo-Nazis were expected to congregate Friday, which marks Adolf Hitler's birthday, for a two-day festival in a small eastern German town where anti-fascist groups have vowed counter-protests. A major police deployment [...]
16 April 2018 by AFP
Germany charges 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard German prosecutors brought charges Monday against a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard, accusing him of abetting murder in the latest 11th-hour attempt to use the criminal justice system to address the Holocaust. The public prosec [...]
24 April 2017 by Arrey Ojong Eyumeneh
Remembrance: Can Mali learn from Germany? Whenever there are serious and /or massive human rights violations within a community or a State, victims, their family members and eye witnesses tend to seek justice and truth about what happened to their loved ones. To ensure th [...]
26 December 2016 by AFP
German petition urges honour for dead Polish truck driver Calls grew in Germany on Monday for the government to posthumously honour the Polish truck driver who is believed to have saved many lives during the Christmas market attack. More than 33,000 people had signed an online petition a [...]
24 December 2016 by AFP
Germany hunts possible accomplices of Berlin attacker Germany was hunting for possible accomplices of the suspected Berlin truck attacker on Saturday, a day after he was killed in a shoot-out with Italian police in Milan. As most of the country was preparing to celebrate Christmas Ev [...]
22 December 2016 by AFP
Brother tells Berlin attack suspect to surrender A brother of Tunisian Anis Amri, the prime suspect in a deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market, urged him Thursday to surrender to ease pressure on his family. "If he is listening to me, I tell him: 'Present yourself' (t [...]
21 December 2016 by AFP
Berlin truck attack: the investigation so far A Polish-registered truck, a kidnapped driver, a falsely-accused Pakistani and a manhunt for a Tunisian suspect: here is what we know about the investigation into the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that left 12 people d [...]
20 December 2016 by AFP
After Berlin, Europe beefs up security at Xmas markets Security was beefed up at Christmas markets across Europe after a lorry ploughed through a market in Berlin killing 12 people and heightening security fears at the onset of the holiday season. The carnage in the German capital had [...]
20 December 2016 by AFP
12 dead in likely 'terror attack' on Berlin Xmas market German police said Tuesday they were treating as "a probable terrorist attack" the killing of 12 people when a speeding lorry cut a bloody swathe through a Berlin Christmas market. At least 48 more were wounded when the truck tore [...]
20 December 2016 by AFP
12 dead in Berlin Christmas market: what we know so far A lorry ploughed into a busy Berlin Christmas market on Monday evening in a suspected attack that left at least 12 people dead and dozens more injured. Here is what we know of the event reminiscent of the horrific scenes in July w [...]
29 September 2016 by AFP
German woman on trial over neo-Nazi murders breaks silence The surviving member of a German neo-Nazi trio accused of a string of racist killings broke her silence in court for the first time Thursday, claiming she no longer held far-right views. More than three years into her trial, Beate [...]
13 July 2016 by AFP
Germany vows greater global security role Germany pledged Wednesday to assume a greater role in global security, pointing to the strategic threat posed by Russia and other looming dangers. In its first big-picture defence paper in a decade, Europe's top economy said it wo [...]
7 July 2016 by AFP
Germany toughens rape law after Cologne mob assaults The German parliament passed a landmark "no means no" rape law Thursday, broadening the definition of sex crimes and making it easier to deport migrants and refugees who commit them. After years of anguished discussion on the need [...]
11 March 2016 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo Editorial Advisor
Germany and the Nazis: Can Trying a Sick Old Man Still Be A Lesson? Germany’s judicial authorities intend to pursue Nazi war criminals down to the last one, however old they are. As a 95-year-old former Auschwitz nurse Hubert Zafke was due to go on trial on March 14 (the court in the eastern town [...]
27 February 2016 by AFP
Germany's twilight Nazi trials about more than justice Germany is putting on trial several former members of the Nazi SS this year -- but seven decades after the war, they are in their 90s and unlikely to end up behind bars. Yet that doesn't diminish the importance of the legal procee [...]