A 27-year-old Syrian national has been arrested after reportedly throwing a teenage girl onto the train tracks at a railway station in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The incident occurred on Sunday, Jan. 8, shortly after 5:15 p.m. at the Altena train station in the Märkisches Kreis district. The 16-year-old schoolgirl disembarked a regional express train traveling to Dortmund... 

An unnamed migrant living in Germany, originally accused of sexually molesting a young girl, struck again days after his arrest when he was released in less than two weeks after legal officials declared he would not be a flight risk. The Afghan migrant, who currently holds a temporary residence permit, was picked up after it was believed he had sexually abused an 11-year-old girl. The migrant was... 

The man, who rammed into people waiting at a bus stop with his car on Thursday, is a Bosnian national, local media say. On Thursday afternoon the 32-year-old man drove his car into the pedestrians in the German city of Recklinghausen, near Dortmund. He killed an 88-year-old and injured seven others with his car. Two victims are considered severely injured, five as slightly injured. Six injured people... 

A suspect detained in connection with the bombing of the Borussia Dortmund team bus came to Germany from Iraq, where he supposedly led an Islamic State unit responsible for numerous abductions and killings, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office (GBA) said in a statement on Thursday it has issued an arrest warrant against a 26-year-old Iraqi national, identified... 

Muslim Mob Sets Germany’s Oldest Church on Fire on New Year’s Eve You’re going to just love the new Europe! German Chancellor Angela Merkel released a New Year’s message calling on Germans to use love and compassion to battle the Islamist extremists in their communities. Meanwhile in Dortmund a Muslim mob of one thousand men chanted “Allahu Akbar” and set Germany’s oldest church... 

While the rest of Germany is calling for fewer immigrants, Oliver Junk, the mayor of Goslar, a small town in Lower Saxony has said he wants more to come into the town. In a speech on Germany’s n-tv news channel, Junk said that “The simplest growth program for Goslar is immigration” “As a region with a declining population, we rely on immigration,” “We need citizens to help our communities... 

Horsemeat products at a horse butcheray in Dortmund. The Swiss-based food giant Nestle has been hit by a widespread horsemeat contamination scandal, forcing it to remove products from European stores. “Our tests have found traces of horse DNA in two products,” Nestle said in a statement on Monday, adding, “The mislabeling of products means they fail to meet the very high standards... 

A man from Dortmund has filed a complaint against Pope Benedikt XVI for not wearing a seat belt in his “Popemobile” during his last trip to Germany. Johannes Christian Sundermann, a lawyer from Unna in North Rhine Westphalia, filed a legal complaint against the German-born pope formerly known as Joseph Ratzinger for not wearing his seat belt on several occasions “for more than one hour... 

Prostitutes, many of them gypsies from Romania, work the streets of Berlin in the Kurfurstendamm area of the city. Challenged with a 100 million euro ($133 million) deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help whittle down its budget gap. The new “pleasure tax” requires prostitutes in Dortmund to purchase a 6 euro “day ticket” for each day...