Germany

Berlin’s city government announced on Thursday that it would require ID to enter outdoor pools.

The move comes after repeated outbreaks of violence at the facilities.

Visitors will be required to purchase personalized tickets in advance online and identify themselves at the entrance.

The city announced that at two pools, located in the Neukölln and Kreuzberg neighborhoods, video surveillance and mobile police guards would be in place.

Last weekend, a fight broke out among 50 youths at a slide at a Neukölln pool.

The suspects arrested in Germany had also been collecting money for Islamic State since April 2022 and repeatedly transferred it to the group abroad.

German police arrested seven people on Thursday on suspicion of founding a terrorist organization with the aim of carrying out high-profile attacks similar to Islamic State, prosecutors said.

The Turkmen, Tajik, and Kyrgyz nationals arrested in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia had known each other for a long time and entered the country from Ukraine shortly after the war began in 2022, said prosecutors.

German judge said they had enough castor beans to produce ricin capable of killing as many as 13,500 people. It is the second such case in Germany in recent years.

Earlier this year in January, two brothers were arrested by German police following a raid on their home in the town of Castrop-Rauxel near the city of Dortmund, as police asserted that the two Iranian nationals were radical Islamic extremists plotting a mass casualty terrorist attack.

Now, five months following their arrest, the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office has indicted 26-year-old Jalal J., the younger of the two brothers, for plotting a terrorist attack and trying to create a biological weapon, a report from the German tabloid Bild reveals.

The Koblenz Higher Regional Court on Wednesday sentenced a woman, Nadine K., on Wednesday for being part of the so-called “Islamic State” militant group and taking part in abusing a Yazidi woman.

The court ruled that the 37-year-old had abused a Yazidi woman, forcing her to be a “household slave” while living with the group in Iraq and Syria. She was found guilty of crimes against humanity as well as aiding and abetting genocide.

The Yazidi woman testified at the trial and said she recognized the defendant. She traveled to Koblenz again for the verdict.

Several people were injured, including two police officers, when a mass brawl broke out on Friday evening in the city of Essen, in western Germany.

Police said more than 100 people were involved in the fight, which broke out in front of a restaurant.

Police said they did not have an exact number of injured people.

Tweet translation : “300 Lebanese against 200 Syrians: street battles in Essen, migrant war in the Ruhr area!

The Ruhr area has long been a powder keg and now it is exploding: After two family clans from Syria and Lebanon fought each other with machetes and knives in Castrop-Rauxel on Thursday, things continued on Friday evening. At the Salzmarkt, in the middle of downtown Essen, 300 supporters of the Lebanese clan and 200 Syrian clan members faced each other, there was heavy fighting and street battles that lasted for hours. The police wanted / were allowed to watch, but the situation only calmed down on Saturday night.

Imported conflicts from around the world are fought on our streets, which resemble battlefields. It finally needs a different migration policy and a return of criminal foreigners to their home clans. What else has to happen?!”

„300 Libanesen gegen 200 Syrer: Straßenschlachten in Essen, Migrantenkrieg im Ruhrgebiet!

Das Ruhrgebiet ist schon lange ein Pulverfass und jetzt explodiert es: Nachdem sich am Donnerstag in Castrop-Rauxel zwei Familienclans aus Syrien und dem Libanon mit Macheten und Messern… pic.twitter.com/sc0WcnqnjE

— Ralf Schäfer (@Anandathah) June 17, 2023