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Al Arabiya
09-07-2025
- Al Arabiya
Young Bosnian arrested in Germany over ‘terror' plot
German police early Wednesday arrested a young Bosnian man and conducted several searches in the west of the country to investigate the financing of an '[extremist] terrorist attack.' The 27-year-old suspect was arrested in an early morning operation by a specialized police unit in the Essen and Dortmund region, local police and the public prosecutor's office said in a statement. They did not give details about the planned attack, including where or how it was to be carried out, but said the investigation was ongoing. According to the German daily Bild, the suspect had received military training. Several searches have been carried out in the region at the homes of other people, who are currently considered witnesses. The police investigation began due to suspicions of organized fraud, and authorities later determined that the funds collected 'were to be used to finance an [extremist] terrorist attack', the statement said.
Al Arabiya
08-07-2025
- Health
- Al Arabiya
German authorities investigate doctor suspected of killing elderly patients
German police said Tuesday they were investigating a doctor suspected of killing several mainly elderly patients, without indicating the number of potential victims. Police and prosecutors in Itzehoe said in a statement they had opened an inquiry into the deaths of the patients. Investigators were 'reviewing previous deaths' linked to the doctor from the town of Pinneberg in northern Germany, just outside Hamburg, they said. 'Several autopsies and exhumations' had already been performed but it was expected to be 'several weeks' before the results of the forensic analysis were available. Authorities said they would not specify the number of potential cases involved in the meantime. But they said the patients were 'mostly elderly.' The allegations recall two other recent cases in Germany, where medical professionals have been charged with killing patients. In April, Berlin prosecutors charged a palliative care doctor with the murder of 15 patients aged between 25 and 94 years old. And in March, a nurse went on trial in Aachen accused of injecting 26 patients with large doses of sedatives or painkillers, resulting in the deaths of nine.
The Independent
03-07-2025
- The Independent
Man injures four in axe attack on German train, police say
German police say a man attacked and slightly injured four people with an axe on a long-distance train in Bavaria on Thursday before he was detained by police. Local police in Straubing said the attack happened on an ICE express train headed to the Austrian capital of Vienna while it was between Straubing and Plattling in southern Germany. Police said around 500 people were on board when the attack happened. Police, firefighters and emergency personnel were deployed to the scene, police added. The railway line was closed down. Police did not immediately provide further details on the identity of the attacker or his motive.
New York Times
23-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Goodbye to Berlin: New Novels Recall a City's ‘Poor but Sexy' Heyday
Berlin, they say, is dead. Kaput. Over. Not what it used to be. Then again, part of Berlin's modern identity as Europe's licentious, experimental, ultraliberal techno capital is that it has always been finished. A jaded, black-clad noise musician declared as much to me on my first visit to the German capital in my early 20s, two decades ago. Then, as now, Berlin existed in a perpetual state of disdain for its present in favor of a vanished, superior past — the precise years of which varied widely depending on whom you asked (and tended to coincide with the person's youth). Still, the consensus seems to be that Berlin is, if not quite over, no longer the anything-goes metropolis that, from the collapse of the wall to the 2010s, enchanted so many people seeking a freer, cheaper, less conventional way of living. I lived in Berlin for several years starting in 2018, and continue to spend my summers there. I still find it inspiring, more so than my native Dublin (a capital that's always felt like a village), but there's no avoiding the facts: The city is fast becoming as expensive as London or Paris, and a new nexus of capital and property speculation is erasing what's left of a bohemian utopia in its 'poor but sexy' heyday. Dark historical clouds once again swoop in. I regularly see footage of Berlin's Polizei suppressing pro-Palestinian protests with disturbing brutality, while a state-sanctioned cancellation campaign against critics of Israel's actions in Gaza has chilled the cultural sector. The sinister far-right party Alternative für Deutschland is on the rise. The other kind of party — the one represented by storied techno temples such as Berghain and Tresor — is now the stomping ground of tech and finance elites. I've just read a batch of novels set in Berlin, all published this year. While fiction is an imperfect receptacle for history, it tends to capture the moods, textures and sensibilities of a period far better than official records can. Novel writing being a slow-motion affair, only one of these four books is set in our evil decade. The others take place in the decade prior — when an image of the city solidified just as the reality underpinning it began to dissolve. Reading about Berlin at its most recent peak underscores the subtle manner in which a city can both vanish and endure — can be credibly declared dead even while retaining great promise and vitality to those who still flock there in search of a better life. The books speak less about the city itself than the desires, pretensions and last gasps of a 21st-century vanguard: the hedonistic cosmopolites and dropout creatives who once dominated the cultural discourse but now look very much like an endangered species within the current world order. While common themes emerge — gentrification, immigration, economic and political shifts — these four very different novels form something of a Cubist portrait of a place, and a people, receding into the mists of history and nostalgia. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
News24
10-06-2025
- News24
‘Former pupil' kills nine people at Austrian school
A tragic school shooting occurred in Graz, Austria, leaving 10 dead, including students, an adult, and the lone shooter, whose motive remains unknown. Austria's leadership and European figures expressed condolences as the nation grapples with this rare act of violence in one of the world's safest countries. School violence cases are infrequent in Europe but have been on the rise, with similar recent attacks in Slovakia, Croatia, and Serbia stirring concerns. An attack on a school in southeastern Austria reportedly by a former pupil has left several people dead, police said Tuesday, in a rare case of deadly gun violence in a European school. Heavily armed police, a helicopter and paramedics descended upon the school in Graz, where 10 people including the alleged lone shooter were killed and "several severely injured", regional police said on X. "The identities of those affected are currently being established," police said, adding the situation as "secure" and support was being provided to witnesses and those affected. Graz Mayor Elke Kahr told Austrian press agency APA that 10 people including several pupils and one adult were killed. The alleged shooter acted alone, police said, and his motive is unknown. Austrian media reported the suspect is believed to be a 22-year-old former pupil who also took his own life. Police and interior ministry officials could not immediately be reached by AFP. "The situation is very unclear at the moment," police sources told Austria's APA news agency. Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker and Interior Minister Gerhard Karner are expected to hold a press conference at 13:00. "It's a disaster, simply terrible. After all, it's about children," Hasan Darsel, a restaurant owner in the area, told the newspaper Kronen Zeitung. 'Deeply shocked' Condolences poured in from across Europe. EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas declared herself "deeply shocked" Tuesday by reports of the shooting. "Every child should feel safe at school and be able to learn free from fear and violence," Kallas posted on X. "My thoughts are with the victims, their families and the Austrian people in this dark moment." European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said "the news from Graz touches my heart." Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her sympathies to the families of the victims following the "tragic news". Attacks in public are rare in Austria, an Alpine nation of almost 9.2 million people, which ranks among the 10 safest countries in the world, according to the Global Peace Index. School shootings are also much more uncommon in Europe than in the United States but in recent years Europe has been shaken by attacks at schools and universities, that were not connected to terrorism. In France on Tuesday, a teaching assistant was killed at a school in Nogent in the east following a knife attack. In January 2025, an 18-year-old man fatally stabbed a high school student and a teacher at a school in northeastern Slovakia. In December 2024, a 19-year-old man stabbed a seven-year-old student to death and injured several others at a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia. In December 2023, an attack by a student at a university in central Prague left 14 people dead and 25 injured. A few months earlier that year, a 13-year-old gunned down eight fellow classmates and a security guard at an elementary school in downtown Belgrade. Six children and a teacher were also injured. The shooter contacted the police, who arrested him. In 2009, nine pupils, three teachers and three passers-by were killed in a school shooting at Winnenden in southern Germany by a former pupil who then killed himself.
