A 30-year-old Tajik man arrested on December 24 in connection with a terrorist threat to Cologne Cathedral remains in custody two weeks after his arrest, police in the western German city said on Sunday. The man was arrested in the town of Wesel, some 100 kilometres north of Cologne after a police special unit searched a residence there, initially taking five men into custody. The original police statement said he would be detained for two weeks. Cologne police were to provide information on the
Strict security measures are to be taken to protect Cologne's iconic cathedral during traditional News Year's celebrations, the officer in charge of the zone in the western German city said on Friday. The deployment would be aimed at preventing any possible attacks, Martin Lotz said. "I'm unable to detail the nature of the attacks here," he added. Lotz warned that revellers could encounter officers carrying submachine guns in the city. "That may be unsettling, I know," he said, but the measure w
Artist Candice Breitz worked for several years to set up an exhibition in the German city of Saarbruecken, only for it to be cancelled over her stance on the Israel-Hamas war.The upshot of this, believes Breitz who is herself Jewish is that "German institutions are likely to increasingly avoid working with artists who are politically engaged".
Joerg Prophet flashed a brilliant white grin as he greeted voters at his campaign stand in Nordhausen, a small but prosperous city in the former East German state of Thuringia.The AfD's support is especially strong in Thuringia, where it is polling on around 34 percent according to a recent survey by regional broadcaster MDR.
Thuringia will hold a vote for its regional parliament in September 2024, along with two other former East German states, Brandenburg and Saxony.