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Some 2,300 people joined a demonstration called by the Islamist group Muslim Interaktiv in the northern German port city of Hamburg on Saturday, according to police estimates, after the rally only got the go-ahead from authorities under strict conditions. The demonstrators gathered in the city's Sankt Georg district near the central railway station on Saturday afternoon amid a heavy police presence. Most of the participants were men, according to a dpa reporter at the scene. The protest comes after more than 1,000 people attended a rally in Hamburg called by Muslim Interaktiv last month which ...
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German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has dismissed Islamist support for the caliphate as a form of rule as absurd, but does not necessarily consider it a judicial issue in Germany. His comments came ahead of an Islamist demonstration in Hamburg later on Saturday, called by the organization Muslim Interaktiv, and in the wake of controversy following a similar rally last month. "Purely expressing sympathy for a caliphate is something that I consider politically absurd," Buschmann told dpa. But, he said, Germany's Constitutional Court had found that as long as people simply express an absurd o...
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The Islamist group Muslim Interaktiv plans to take to the streets of the northern German port city of Hamburg again on Saturday, but under strict conditions, the police said. The nine individual points include a ban on inciting hatred or violence, Israel's right to exist may not be denied and Israeli flags may not be burnt or damaged, police said on Friday. The police are expecting around 1,000 participants at the demonstration in the central Sankt Georg district being held under the motto "Against censorship and the dictatorship of opinion." It is also forbidden to call for a caliphate in Ger...
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Police are investigating two women on suspicion of assault after a fight broke out in the crowd following a lecture about anti-Semitism at the University of Hamburg in northern Germany on Wednesday. Several heckling incidents had already broken out during the talk entitled "Hostility towards Jews, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism - current forms of anti-Jewish violence." That led to an argument between the 56-year-old wife of the lecturer and several members of the audience after the end of the event, the police said in a statement published on Friday. The lecturer's wife was punched in the face by...
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A man who smashed his car through the gates of Hamburg Airport and parked it on the tarmac with his 4-year-old daughter inside has confessed to the kidnapping of his child and other crimes. "I just wanted to leave Germany. I wanted the police to find ways to send us to Turkey," the 35-year-old Turkish man said on Monday in a statement read out by his defence lawyer. The trial is taking place nearly six months after the bizarre incident in November that lasted 18 hours and disrupted air traffic for nearly a day. He had wanted to fly to Istanbul with his daughter, he said when asked by the presi...
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Germany's public prosecutor is to take action following a demonstration organized by Islamists with more than 1,000 participants in Hamburg at the weekend. The individual slogans and banners will be examined for criminal offences, police chief Falk Schnabel told public broadcaster ZDF on Monday. "However, it is also a fact that our Basic Law also allows extremist demonstrations with regard to freedom of assembly and freedom of opinion," he added. The right of assembly is structured in such a way that it is not primarily about allowing or banning certain opinions, he said. "We are the police, o...
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A man who smashed his car through the gates of Hamburg Airport and parked his car on the tarmac with his 4-year-old daughter inside will stand trial for hostage-taking and other charges on Monday. The Hamburg trial of the 35-year-old Turkish man takes place nearly six months after the bizarre incident in November that lasted 18 hours and disrupted air traffic for nearly a day. The man allegedly kidnapped his daughter from her mother's flat in the nearby town of Stade and then drove to the airport. He broke through three security barriers with the car and then parked on the tarmac. From there, ...
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One person died in a flat fire in a refugee centre in the northern German port city of Hamburg on Tuesday. The Hamburg fire brigade arrived at the property in the city's Rahlstedt district with a large contingent to fight the blaze. One person was rescued, but died on site a short time later, according to the fire brigade. Some residents of the accommodation were able to get themselves to safety from the flames on their own. Several callers had alerted the emergency services. When the firefighters arrived, flames were coming out of the windows and the fire was already threatening to spread to ...
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Some four months after the 18-hour hostage-taking at Germany's Hamburg Airport, the public prosecutor's office has brought charges against the alleged perpetrator. The 35-year-old Turkish man is to answer for hostage-taking, kidnapping of minors, intentional bodily harm and weapons offences, the prosecution announced on Thursday. The man is accused of abducting his 4-year-old daughter from her mother's flat in Stade in the state of Lower Saxony on the evening of November 4 and driving to Hamburg Airport with the child. He broke through three barriers with the car and drove onto the airport apr...
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Hundreds of people in Hamburg including port workers turned out to protest against the entry of the world's largest shipping company MSC into the Hamburg port logistics company HHLA on Wednesday. They marched from the headquarters of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik in the Speicherstadt warehouse district to the MSC branch then onwards to the economic authorities, repeatedly chanting "Our harbour, our city, smash the MSC deal." The police initially said there were around 500 participants. Some 2,500 people protested against the controversial deal in September. HHLA staff walked out in a day-long p...
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