crime in germany

• Germany

Property damage, propaganda, assault: at least one attack on a refugee reception center takes place in Germany per week. That's according to figures released by the German government. However, the number of attacks has been declining steadily since 2015.

• Germany
• Syria

A 54-year-old Syrian man in Berlin is accused of firing a grenade in Damascus in 2014, killing at least seven people. German prosecutors have pursued several war crimes cases.

• Germany

The European law enforcement agency Europol has supported German Federal Police and a criminal investigation unit in eastern Germany to dismantle an organized crime group suspected of smuggling migrants from Turkey to Germany along the so-called 'Balkan route.'

• Germany

A Syrian man has been charged with murder after a "radical Islamic" attack on two Germans last year. Prosecutors allege that he targeted the tourists for being "infidels."

• Germany
• Pakistan

16 people, among them 11 convicted criminals, have been deported from Munich to Pakistan, the Bavarian office for asylum announced on Wednesday.

• Belgium
• France
• Germany

"Traded Children" (Handelsware Kind) is a new documentary from Germany’s public broadcaster ARD / RBB. It investigates the story behind the trafficking of minors and young adults who are being regularly traded like goods from Vietnam to Europe.

• Austria
• Germany

More than 400 police officers were involved in raids in four different German states and Austria against an international people smuggling ring on Tuesday morning. The ring is thought to have trafficked more than 100 people, mostly from Syria, illegally into Germany. Five suspects were arrested, a total of 19 are being investigated.

• Germany
• Syria

The parliamentary faction of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU party wants to use the results of an inquest into the security situation in northern Syria to examine whether the region could be deemed a safe zone for deportation. But many have criticized the plans.

• Germany

There have been mounting calls across Germany in recent weeks to bring an end to the deportation stop for Syrians, following a deadly knife attack on two tourists in Dresden earlier in October.

• Albania
• Germany
• Kosovo

German police have raided 26 premises across the country on Wednesday during an operation to dismantle human trafficking rings. Three suspects have been detained, who are alleged to have links to a criminal group run by a 65-year-old Kosovan national, who was also arrested.

• Germany

Nine people were killed in two shootings at hookah bars in the city. The suspected attacker was later found dead in his home next to his mother's corpse.

• Germany
• Turkey

German authorities watched the suspected illegal banking operation for a year before their raid. The suspects are accused of running an illegal hawala banking system between Germany and Turkey.