Germany Busts Alleged Far-Right Plot To Attack Jews
BERLIN — German authorities on Wednesday carried out dawn raids against far-right suspects accused of plotting attacks on Jews, refugees and police, federal prosecutors said.
BERLIN — German authorities on Wednesday carried out dawn raids against far-right suspects accused of plotting attacks on Jews, refugees and police, federal prosecutors said.
The number of reported antisemitic attacks in Germany doubled from 2015 to 2016, according to an annual report on antisemitism released by the Diaspora Affairs Ministry on Sunday, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day this Friday.
With a name that its founders admit is deliberately provocative, a Jewish outreach group in Germany has launched a new program to attempt to bust myths about Jewish people and ward off a growing tide of anti-Semitism.
Stockholm – Germany has asked Sweden to extradite a man serving a life sentence for a string of racially motivated shootings to stand trial in the murder of a Jewish woman in Frankfurt nearly a quarter century ago.
Police detained a former senior official on the National Security Council for questioning Tuesday morning on suspicion of taking bribes, money laundering, fraud and breach of trust.
German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office said on Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings.
Each weekday, Laszlo Zobel, 98, a retired textile maker fond of colourful jokes, leaves his fin-de-siècle apartment in the company of a nurse, and visits a specialist to treat the chronic osteosclerosis he suffers from.
A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig, Germany, officials say.
A few years ago, Yael Merlini wasn’t sure she and her family could stay in Germa-ny. Her children, ages 7, 11 and 15, were the only Jews in their school in Giessen, a town near Frankfurt.
Police in Spain, Belgium and Germany on Wednesday arrested five people suspected of forming a cell that spread propaganda and sought to recruit militants for the Islamic State armed group, officials said.