Source: The Local Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans on Saturday to hold firm to democratic values in the face of jihadist terror, urging them to counter “murderers who are full of hate” with compassion and cohesion. In her New Year’s address delivered less than two weeks after a Tunisian […]
Source: The Local “The story is completely without basis and we were enraged as we read it,” Berlin’s police told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on Friday. The Guardian on Thursday published an interview with Naveed B., quoting him as remembering two officers “digging the heels of their shoes into […]
Source: Aljazeera Nearly 55,000 migrants and refugees who were not eligible for or were likely to be denied asylum left Germany voluntarily in 2016, up by 20,000 from the number […]
Source:Handles Blatt Global It’s freezing cold outside when Gerhard Schröder invites us into his comfortable office near the zoo in Hanover. The former chancellor has just returned from representing Germany at Fidel Castro’s funeral in Havana and will be traveling to Turkey afterwards. But a number of things are also turning frosty […]
Source: Time By David McHugh/AP (FRANKFURT, Germany) — Thousands of people in the southern German city of Augsburg have left Christmas presents and decorations behind, forced to evacuate while authorities disarm […]
by Douglas Murray. The BBC is still saying, a lorry ‘went on a rampage’ in [Berlin]. Sure, trucks are the problem. Check out the spin in our media: The Independent reported that ‘Berlin’s Muslim community sends message of peace and solidarity after Christmas market attack’. The report when on to […]
December 23, 2016 08:16 PM Der Spiegel Terror attacks bring people together. That, at least, is what used to happen. But the attack in Berlin has followed a different script, with the gap between those content to wait for the facts and those eager to score political points now wider […]
Source: BBC The Berlin market attacker, Anis Amri, has been shot dead by police in Milan. The Tunisian criminal fired on police who asked him for ID during a routine […]
The intention of Isis’ terror attacks is to provoke European states to ‘persecute’ Muslims within their frontiers in acts of reprisal for the mass killing of western Europeans Robert Fisk @indyvoices There is something infinitely naive in our pursuit of the identity of those behind the massacres which Isis is […]
Mirror Scott Campbell The Berlin Christmas market massacre suspect has been shot dead in Milan by police after pulling out a gun during a 3am stop. Anis Amri reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or god is great, and shot an officer in the shoulder just moments after getting off a […]
Source: BBC The family of Anis Amri, the Tunisian man suspected of driving a lorry into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, have urged him to surrender. His brother, Abdelkader […]
Reuters International DEC 21, 2016 – Handout pictures released on December 21, 2016 and acquired from the web site of the German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Federal Crime Office show suspect Anis Amri searched in relation with the Monday’s truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. REUTERS/BKA/Handout via Reuters (reuters_tickers) […]
Muslims in Berlin have held a vigil to show their solidarity with the victims of an attack on a Christmas market in the city centre, in which 12 people were killed. Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38389333
Source: BBC A manhunt is under way across Europe’s Schengen states after prosecutors identified a suspect in the lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market. As an arrest warrant circulated, […]
Source: The Local Clad in white at a Berlin church, asylum seekers Saeed, Veronica, Farida and Matin were just about to become Christians on a recent Sunday.”Do you believe from the bottom of your heart that Jesus Christ is your Lord and saviour, and will you follow him every day […]
The Local news@thelocal.de 21 December 2016 Photo: DPA German police are searching for a Tunisian man whose ID document they found in the truck which attacked a Berlin Christmas market on Monday, German media report. 12.15pm A report in Bild suggests that the Polish man found dead in the passenger […]
Police, journalists and onlookers were scattered around the damaged Christmas market the day after the terrorist attack. DW’s Ben Knight joined them. Police, many of them armed with automatic weapons, kept themselves warm on Tuesday by ordering people away from their red and white plastic cordoning tape. Keeping a tight […]
FAISAL J. ABBAS | Published — Wednesday 21 December 2016 Faisal J. Abbas Monday’s atrocious attacks that targeted civilians at a Christmas market in Berlin and Muslims praying in a mosque in Zurich resemble two sides of the same coin of hatred. Both acts of terrorism should be condemned, […]
Source: The Washington Post By Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner December 20 at 12:15 PM BERLIN — The German capital was on high alert Tuesday as authorities feared one or […]
Source: Time BY Ian Bremmer presidential candidates, Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises. Though enough voters appear to have liked what they heard to make Trump President, some of those pledges, like deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning Muslims from entering the country, are unlikely ever to be […]