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Twelve people are injured when a masked man detonates two pyrotechnic explosives on a train in Siegburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. A 20-year-old man is arrested by Federal Police and charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and violation of explosives law. A right-wing political motive is suspected. 2026-04-2
Polish authorities arrest a Ukrainian diver in Pruszków, Masovian Voivodeship, on a German warrant, suspecting his involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions in the Baltic Sea. 2025-09-30
Germany's federal prosecutor charges an Iraqi couple, allegedly members of the Islamic State, with enslavement, torture, and war crimes, after they allegedly kept two Yazidi girls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them. 2024-12-30
The Russian Federal Security Service arrests a German-Russian man for allegedly planning to sabotage a rail line in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine. 2024-12-10
A man drives onto the tarmac at Hamburg Airport in Germany and holds his four-year-old daughter hostage underneath an airplane, causing all flights at the airport to be suspended. The man surrenders to police 18 hours later. 2023-11-5
Germany declares all of Spain except for the Canary Islands a high risk region following a spike of COVID-19 cases in the country. Designations as risk regions are typically followed by the German Foreign Ministry warning against touristic travel to those areas and mean people returning from those areas face a test or two weeks' compulsory quarantine. 2020-08-14
The 1.6-hectare populated hamlet of Alwine in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück district, Germany, is sold for 140,000 € at a public auction. 2017-12-9
German police are investigating 26 sexual assault reports from this weekend's Schlossgrabenfest music festival near Darmstadt. In one case, three women reported being groped by groups of men Saturday. Police have detained three Pakistani immigrants, and expect more reports following this announcement. 2016-06-1
Somali pirates release a German ship with 22 crew, eight months after it was seized near Oman. 2010-12-28
Somali pirates hijack a Malaysian cargo vessel with 23 crew members 900 miles off the coast of Somalia. 2010-11-29