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About 100 police officers injured in clashes with May Day demonstrators in Berlin ANI | Updated: May 02, 2021 22:10 IST Berlin [Germany], May 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of police officers injured at May Day rallies in Berlin rose to 93, while at least 354 people were detained, the city police told Sputnik on Sunday. Earlier in the day, the police reported that 240 people were detained and some 30 police officers were injured in the demonstrations. Berlin's senator for the interior and sport Andreas Geisel updated the information, stating that 93 law enfo...

Local officials said that at least 90 officers were injured after peaceful protests turned chaotic, according to the Associated Press.

Germany open to joint bid with Israel for 2036 Olympics ​ By IANS | ​ 3 Views   Berlin, April 6 : The sports and interior minister for Berlin, Andreas Geisel, is open to the idea of a joint bid by Berlin and Tel Aviv to host the 2036 Olympic Games. This would "of course be a strong sign for peace and international understanding - in full awareness of our painful history and the abominable misuse of the Olympic idea by the National Socialists," Geisel told the Berliner Morgenpost paper, DPA reports. Tel Aviv and Berlin stand "for openness to the world, freedom and tolerance. These are t...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:00 UTC Hundreds of police were part of the dawn raids in Moabit and other Berlin neighborhoodsAuthorities in the German capital have announced a ban on the radical Islamist group Jama'atu Berlin following a series of dawn raids. Berlin's Senate has announced on Twitter that it has banned the "jihadist-Salafist association Jama'atu Berlin," also known as Tauhid Berlin. The tweet Thursday said police in Berlin and Brandenburg had carried out early-morning searches of properties belonging to the group's members. A spokesman cited by the German press agency dpa said aro...

Feb. 25, 2021 Hundreds of German police carried out raids in 26 locations across Berlin and neighbouring Brandenburg state on Thursday following the banning and dissolution of a radical Islamist group in the capital, authorities said. Berlin's Senate interior department said it had outlawed Jama'atu Berlin, "a young and very radical jihad Salafist" association, also known as Tauhid Berlin, saying the group was advocating terrorist attacks. Nineteen members of the association were the focus of Thursday's raids and the group had been under surveillance for two years, Berlin Interior Senator And...