A German police officer has died two days after being stabbed at an anti-Islam gathering in the western German city of Mannheim, authorities said Sunday, as police responded to demonstrations held in the wake of the attack. The public prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe, the Mannheim police headquarters and the criminal investigation office in the state […]
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German anti-Islam movement plans further events after knife attack
Germany’s anti-Islamic Pax Europa movement is planning further public gatherings despite Friday’s knife attack in the city of Mannheim that left a police officer critically injured. Next Saturday, the group will set up a booth outside the train station in the city of Dortmund, in North-Rhine Westphalia, its treasurer Stefanie Kizina told dpa. She expected […]
Video shows anti-Islam activist among those stabbed in Germany attack
Videos shared on social media showed a man attacking several people with a knife in the southwest German city of Mannheim on Friday. A police spokesperson confirmed the incident and said there was no danger to the public after the suspect was apprehended. The police did not immediately provide any information about the severity of […]
Dutch anti-Islam party on the verge of forming EU’s latest hard-right government
Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is on the verge of brokering a four-party coalition in the Netherlands six months after coming in first in national elections. It opens the prospect that yet another European Union nation will veer towards the hard right weeks ahead of EU-wide elections. Mr Wilders has said he does not expect to […]