German police News

Several people were shot dead after two unknown gunmen attacked shisha bars in the German city of Hanau, Hessenshau reported on Wednesday quoting police sources.

German police on Sunday arrested Catalonia`s former president Carles Puigdemont.

On Friday, a failed asylum seeker killed one person and injured six others in the northern city of Hamburg.

German security forces launched a nationwide anti-terror operation on Wednesday targeting suspected members and supporters of the Islamic State (IS) terror group.

It said he had bought 15,000 put options, or contracts giving him the right to sell Borussia Dortmund`s shares at a pre-determined price, on the day of the attack, using a consumer loan he had signed the previous week.

German police have arrested three people on suspicion of supporting a suspected Islamist militant and helping to prepare a serious act of violent subversion against the state.

German police are probing a possible Islamist link to three explosions that rocked the Borussia Dortmund football team bus, after a letter found at the scene referred to the Berlin Christmas market attack, national media reported on Wednesday.

German police in overnight raids arrested an Algerian and a Nigerian man suspected of planning an Islamist attack.

A 33-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean woman was allegedly ill-treated and humiliated by the German security officials who told her to show and squeeze her breasts at the Frankfurt Airport to prove that she was lactating.

Italian and German police said they had broken up a Pakistani-run gang that smuggled people into Europe across the Balkans.

German authorities came under fire Thursday after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin`s deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist.

German police on Tuesday arrested five men suspected of links to the Islamic State organisation, who allegedly sought to recruit fighters for the jihadist group.

Security was stepped up at airports, train stations and other critical infrastructure as it was unclear whether the suspect was in possession of weapons.

German elite police have arrested a 27-year old German man suspected of having explosives in his apartment and planning an attack at a festival in the eastern town of Eisenhuettenstadt, Germany`s Focus magazine reported on Wednesday.

A woman was killed and two people injured by a 21-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker armed with a machete on Sunday in the southwest German city of Reutlingen, the local police said.

The mall near the southern German city's Olympic stadium was surrounded by police after shots were fired.

German police have shot dead a 17-year-old Afghan after he attacked passengers on a train with an axe and a knife, seriously wounding three people, officials said.

Algerians targeted in raids on Thursday over suspected links to the Islamic State group lived in refugee shelters, the German Police said.

German police said Thursday that they had "indications that a terror attack" was being planned in the southern city of Munich, as they called on the public to avoid large gatherings and two key train stations.