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Police have been accused of using illegal methods to protect a Syrian who was sentenced to probation after killing a German man, harassing the victim’s father, and falsely insinuating he was a threat to the migrant.

Police in Frankfurt, Germany fired water cannons at Antifa counterprotesters on Saturday as the far-left attempted to shut down an anti-lockdown rally against the government’s Chinese coronavirus restrictions. Approximately 600 Querdenker (lateral thinker) protesters took to the streets of Frankfurt,

Police have said they expect violence and retaliation from Antifa after a massive operation involving 1,500 officers to remove extremists from a long-standing squat.

German police have entered their third day of a manhunt for 31-year-old Yves Etienne Rausch, who is accused of pulling a firearm on four officers and disarming them during a police check.

Following a surge in left-wing extremist Antifa attacks this year, the Leipzig police say they will be increasing their presence in the city on New Year’s Eve to protect emergency services from potential attacks. The announcement comes after left-wing extremists

Police in Germany shot a man to death after he went on a rampage in Stuttgart and threatened officers with a sword.

Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Agency (BKA) has claimed that recently-arrived migrants are forming their own criminal clan gangs and are pressuring existing Arab and Lebanese gang families.

German police have been accused of racial profiling after arresting a group of Muslim men who were said to be chanting “Allah hu Akbar” in front of Cologne cathedral.

Just three men were convicted of carrying out sex attacks during the notorious events on New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne, despite more than 600 women filing complaints of sexual assault, local media reports.

Authorities in a district of rural Germany covered up a long list list of asylum seeker crimes including rape, assault, and child sex abuse so as not to “stir up prejudice”, it has been alleged.

German police in Freiburg gave a stern warning to the public after a woman posted a picture of a migrant on social media she believed had molested her 12-year-old daughter in order to get help from the public in identifying the man.

BERLIN (AP) — A court has upheld the minimum height requirement for police officers in Germany’s most populous state, throwing out the case of three female recruits who were slightly too short.

BERLIN (AP) — Hamburg police say authorities in Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland are conducting raids as part of an investigation into the riots that accompanied last year’s Group of 20 summit in the German city. Police gave few details

Olaf Lindner, the new president of the German Federal Police Special Forces Directorate, has warned that German authorities expect “complex” terror attacks to be attempted in Germany in the future. Lindner, the former head of Germany’s top anti-terror unit GSG 9,

Two officers of the Baden-Württemberg police may be facing expulsion from the force after they allegedly harassed a Senegalese asylum seeker at a McDonald’s restaurant while on a private day trip to Augsburg.

A shocking new report from German media claims that a Syrian asylum seeker, who was roommates with Berlin Christmas market terrorist Anis Amri, warned authorities about him a year before the attack.

Special investigator Bruno Jost has completed his report into the police actions regarding Berlin terror attacker Anis Amri and said police should have been able to stop Amri before the attack took place, noting they only monitored him “sporadically”.

Almost half of the individuals suspected of a recorded crime in Berlin last year were individuals who don’t have a German passport, the latest police statistics show.

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany and Portugal have raided properties linked to a gang suspected of arranging fake marriages in order to make it easier for Nigerians to come to Europe. Berlin police say they searched 41 homes and

German police seized a load of ecstasy tablets shaped in the image of U.S. President Donald Trump. The pills are estimated to have a street value of €39,000.

A new report claims Hamburg police attempted to recruit Ahmad A., the failed Palestinian asylum seeker who killed one and injured several others at a Hamburg supermarket last week.

BERLIN (AP) — Police said a man who showed up with a firearm at a high school in southwestern Germany on Monday was still on the loose because they initially arrested the wrong man. Police tweeted that the man they

German Special Police Forces (SEK) Saxony chief Sven Mewes described the harrowing police experience at the Hamburg G20 summit last week saying he had never seen such a level of violence directed toward police officers.

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are taking action against 36 people suspected of posting hate speech online, most of them accused of far-right incitement.

Several officers in Berlin are now under investigation as a new report claims that police knew more about the Berlin Christmas Market terrorist Anis Amri than they had told the government in Berlin. New information from authorities in Berlin shows

BERLIN (AP) — German police raided homes in four states on Wednesday in connection with three people suspected of links to the Islamic State group, authorities said. Apartments and other locations were searched in Berlin, Bavaria, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt on

BERLIN (AP) — Leftist protesters are claiming responsibility for torching a half dozen police transport vehicles in Hamburg ahead of this year’s G-20 summit in Germany. In a message on a leftist forum online, an anonymous poster wrote the attack

BERLIN (AP) — Police have ordered a shopping mall in the western German city of Essen not to open after receiving credible tips of an imminent attack.

Two police in the German city of Hamburg were attacked by a group of several Muslims while out on patrol after the Muslims claimed to have been “provoked” by the officers.

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a man apparently drove a vehicle into people in a central square in the city of Heidelberg, injuring three people, then fled and was shot after being tracked down by officers.

Raids in the UK and the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) region of Germany have led to the arrests of two Islamist sympathisers who are said to have been aiding the al-Nusra Front in Syria.

BERLIN (AFP) – German police Wednesday carried out dawn raids against far-right suspects accused of plotting attacks on refugees, Jews and police officers, and detained two suspects, authorities said.

Two weeks after New Year’s Eve Cologne police have changed their report on who they identified on the night, saying most of the men were not North Africans but rather were from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

With figures branding their appearance a provocation to the authorities, police have set up a working group to find out why so many North African men showed up in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.

Despite the closure of the Balkan route that saw the majority of the migrant traffic in 2015, German authorities say thousands of migrants were still able to use the route to reach Germany.

Shocking CCTV footage has come to light which shows an Arab kicking a young German woman down a flight of stairs at a subway station in Berlin.