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Deutsche Bank charged in Italy probe as legal hits mount
Six current and former managers of Deutsche Bank AG - including ex-asset and wealth management head Michele Faissola - along with former executives at Nomura Holdings Inc. and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA were charged in Milan for colluding to falsify the accounts of Italy's third-biggest bank and manipulate the market.

A judge in Milan approved a request by prosecutors to try 13 bankers on charges over separate derivative transactions Paschi arranged with the securities firms, said a lawyer involved in the case, who attended the closed-door hearing Saturday, where the decision was announced.

The charges deal another blow to Deutsche Bank, which is seeking to reassure investors and clients that it will be able to withstand pending US penalties over the bank's sale of mortgage-backed securities and its dealings with some Russian clients.
 
PressTV-Zarif cancels meeting with German minister
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani have canceled a meeting with Germany's Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel.

Gabrial was scheduled to meet Zarif in Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s main offices and Larijani in parliament on Tuesday, but the meetings were canceled without any announced reason.

Gabriel is in Iran as the head of a large delegation of business executives to discuss possible deals following the implementation of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries.

As part of the deal, Iran has agreed to limit certain aspects of its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of all nuclear-related sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Ahead of his trip, Gabriel told online weekly magazine Der Spiegel that Iran could have normal and friendly relations with Germany “only when it accepted Israel's right to exist.”

Following the interview, Zarif dismissed the German official’s call, stressing that “No one can set conditions for Iran and Iran is an independent country.”
(Back in June it was no problem to meet the Foreign Minister
- PressTV-Iran-Germany ties beneficial to all: Zarif -
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says cooperation with Germany is beneficial to the Middle East and the rest of the world.

Zarif made the remarks during a press conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on Wednesday night.

Iran’s foreign minister also stressed that he and his German counterpart agree that extremism is not limited to any region and must be dealt with via global cooperation.

In his turn, Steinmeier called for bolstering “the good and long tradition of German-Iranian ties” in the fields of politics, economy, business and culture.
Gabriel went to Iran in 2015 - UPDATE 1-Germany, Iran pledge to revive economic ties after long freeze
Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, making the first top level German government visit to Tehran in 13 years, indicated that a ministerial-level meeting of a long dormant German-Iran economic commission would take place early next year in Tehran.

The trip is a delicate one for Gabriel, partly because of Germany's close ties with Israel, Iran's sworn enemy.

"We have talked about human rights here and I also made it clear that Israel's right to exist is an indispensable condition for Germany," Gabriel told German broadcaster ARD in an interview recorded in Tehran and aired on Monday evening.

"Of course, this has triggered opposition. But it can't be that we only come here for the money," Gabriel added.)
 
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Sweden's royals visit Germany | Lifestyle | DW.COM | 05.10.2016
Sweden's royals visit Germany
A German native, Queen Silvia of Sweden regularly visits her home country. This time, she and her husband King Carl XVI Gustaf are meeting Chancellor Merkel and President Gauck - and seeing a refugee project in Berlin.
(If you want them, just keep 'em! :) Just don't mention her father.)
 
German state not liable to pay compensation to victims of 2009 Kunduz airstrike | News | DW.COM | 06.10.2016
German state not liable to pay compensation to victims of 2009 Kunduz airstrike

The Kunduz airstrike is probably the most notorious moment of Germany's decade in occupied Afghanistan. In September 2009, responding to a call made by Klein, an American fighter jet struck two fuel tankers in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz.

The tankers had been captured by the Taliban. Klein claimed that he feared they could be used as improvised explosives on the nearby German base. However, the airstrikes killed around 100 people, mainly civilians - who had flocked to the tanker trying to siphon off fuel.

The prosecution claimed that Klein must have known there were scores of civilians around the tanker and should not have ordered the attack. While the courts had already rejected the accusations, federal prosecutors are still investigating a possible private case against him. Previous efforts to charge him with murder failed in 2011. In 2013, he was promoted from colonel to general.

Immediately following the 2009 attack, the German government voluntarily paid out $5,000 to each of the victims' families.
 
Frightened Syrians stuck in east Germany mull leaving
A year after they arrived in Germany seeking refuge from war, some Syrians say they have experienced so much animosity that they are contemplating leaving.

The trouble is, they have landed in the eastern state of Saxony -- a flashpoint zone home to the Islamophobic PEGIDA movement that has seen a spate of racist hate crimes.

Erdmute Gustke, pastor at a church in Heidenau -- another Saxony village hit by violent anti-refugee demonstrations -- said some saw the migrant influx as another unwanted change affecting their lives.

"There is a feeling of 'leave us in peace, we've only just found our way after reunification and now we're facing something new again,'" she said.

Social media has also lifted the expression of hatred for foreigners to a "new level", said refugee aid volunteer Marc Lalonde.

"Before this social media explosion, people were probably racist but they kept it to themselves," he said
 
Leader of German Hells Angels faction shot dead | News | DW.COM | 07.10.2016
(There will be blood - more violence to come from this)
Leader of German Hells Angels faction shot dead
The body of Aygün Mucuk was found on Friday morning by a cleaner at the gang's hideout in Wettenburg in the western state of Hesse. Police say they currently have no leads.
The rivalry between the long-established Hells Angels gang from Frankfurt and its counterpart from Giessen, whose members are mainly of Turkish descent, has previously led to clashes and shootings.
 
I love a good manhunt ! :D
Hundreds of German police hunt man feared to be planning bomb attack
Hundreds of German police hunt man feared to be planning bomb attack

German police have reportedly detained two people in Chemnitz after finding explosives in a raid on an apartment.

It follows a major search by hundreds of German police including specialist commandos for a man suspected of planning a bomb attack, after failing to find him in a raid on an apartment.

Police suspect Islamist link in Chemnitz explosives raid | Breaking News | DW.COM | 08.10.2016
Police have found explosives in an apartment in the German city of Chemnitz and arrested three people over an alleged terror plot. The main suspect, the 22-year-old Syrian Jaber A, is still on the run.

Saxony police raided the flat after receiving information about the alleged attack plans from Germany's domestic intelligence agency on Friday night, Bernhardt told reporters. They failed to find the suspect in the raid.

It remains unknown how many suspects there are or what the motive of the planned bomb attack was.

The suspect reportedly arrived as a refugee in Germany from Syria last year.

More to come...

"We are looking for a suspect. If you can give relevant hints please call LKA 0351/8554114. Further information at: https://www.polizei.sachsen.de/de/45350.htm "

Germany hunts bomb suspect in Chemnitz - BBC News
Acting on a tip-off from the domestic intelligence service, police raided an apartment but failed to find the suspect, Jaber al-Bakr, 22, who was born in Syria. He remains on the run.

Several hundred grams of explosives were found at the property, they say.

Further evacuations are now necessary, authorities said.

Local residents had earlier been asked to remain indoors as police combed the area.


Two people were detained at Chemnitz railway station and their luggage is being searched, state police tweeted.

Another person was detained near the apartment in the Fritz-Heckert neighbourhood.
 
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Steinmeier warns of deterioriating world order | Germany | DW.COM | 08.10.2016
The mounting tensions between the United States and Russia have created a situation that is “more dangerous” than the Cold War, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview published Saturday.

Relations between the two have nosedived since a ceasefire they agreed to in September fell apart in less than a week, and Washington on Friday accused Damascus and Moscow of staging “war crimes” in Aleppo.

“It’s a fallacy to think that this is like the Cold War. The current times are different and more dangerous,” Steinmeier told the mass-circulation Bild newspaper.

Wolfgang Ischinger, who served as OSCE mediator for Ukraine, told the newspaper that there was “considerable danger of a military confrontation.

“This danger has not been as strong in decades and the confidence between West and East has never been so low,” he said.
(Keep on crankin' out the "fear porn" - when people start to talk about "The Cold War" you know it's time to hold you nose and walk away.)
 
Nebulous said:
I'd love to go to germany one day.
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Hope you get to go - maybe you'll be able to join in a man hunt too! Talking of which,
Explosive material discovered in German flat was the same home-made substance used by Paris and Brussels attackers
The suspect, Jaber Albakr, could have had “an Islamist motive”, police sources said. :D

Police said “several hundred grams” of an “explosive substance even more dangerous than TNT” were found in Albakr’s apartment in the eastern city of Chemnitz, about 260km south of Berlin.

“Even a small quantity of this substance could have caused enormous damage,” police said.

The local Freie Presse newspaper said the substance was TATP, the home-made explosive used by IS terrorists in the Paris and Brussels attacks.

“At present we do not know where [the suspect] is or what he is carrying,” police said on Twitter, urging residents to be cautious.

German police said previously they had identified 523 people who posed a security threat to the country, around half of whom were known to be currently in Germany.

German authorities have urged the public not to confuse migrants with “terrorists” but have acknowledged that more jihadists may have entered the country among the nearly one million asylum seekers who arrived last year.
 
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More German jihadi news - Germans who fight for terror groups overseas could be stripped of citizenship
German citizens with dual nationality who fight for a terror group should be stripped of their German citizenship, the interior minister said on Thursday, unveiling tough new measures after two attacks claimed by the Islamic State group.

“Germans who participate in fighting abroad for a terror militia and who have another citizenship should lose their German nationality,” Thomas de Maiziere said.

Some 820 people have left Germany to fight alongside jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, according to estimates by Germany’s secret services.

With around one in three fighters having since returned to Germany, fears are running high of the threat they may pose on European soil.
 
As German police conduct manhunt, residents in Chemnitz vent their anger | Germany | DW.COM | 09.10.2016
As German police conduct manhunt, residents in Chemnitz vent their anger

The suspect, Jaber al-Bakr, it has now emerged, narrowly escaped the special unit's raid, after a warning shot was fired by police. A nationwide manhunt is under way. Two of three associates who were arrested on Saturday have been released, while one remains in custody.

German police raid second flat in search of Chemnitz bomb suspect | Germany | DW.COM | 09.10.2016
German police on Sunday stormed another apartment in the eastern city of Chemnitz, detaining a man allegedly connected to a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack.

"Nobody was injured, and no shots were fired. We've taken the man into custody and we are questioning him now," said Tom Berhardt, spokesman for the criminal investigation office in Saxony.
German interior minister: Germany has 520 potential attackers | News | DW.COM | 10.09.2016
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has warned that more than 520 Islamist militants could carry out attacks at home.
(If they know about these 520 militants, why don't they arrest them? Or are they just "monitering" them to see what happens? It's an awfully specific number ... bit too much like "57 Communists in the State Department".)
 
German police detain fugitive terror suspect - BBC News
Chemnitz explosives suspect apprehended | Germany | DW.COM | 10.10.2016
German police say they have captured a suspect believed to be planning a bomb attack.

"Tired but overjoyed: we captured the terror suspect last night in Leipzig," the police said in a tweet.
(No "Bourne style" car chase, no running, no shooting, no shouting of "you're never take me alive. copper!" no "handi hoch!" no running around the Metro/Underground ... :( boring! )
 
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...rman-police-in-alleged-bomb-plot-suspect.html
A Syrian man wanted for allegedly preparing a bombing attack was apprehended by three of his countrymen, who overpowered him, tied him up in their apartment, and then alerted police, authorities said Monday.

The overnight arrest of Jaber Albakr ended a nearly two-day nationwide search for the 22-year-old that German authorities launched after finding several pounds of explosives and components hidden inside an apartment in the eastern city of Chemnitz on Saturday.

Albakr arrived in Germany amid a flood of 890,000 asylum seekers last year. Saxony criminal police chief Joerg Michaelis said that the three Syrians who captured him recognized the suspect from wanted posters police posted online as part of the manhunt.

After taking him to their apartment late Sunday night, two of the Syrians bound and held Albakr while the third brought a mobile phone photo of Albakr to a local police station, leading to the arrest early Monday, Michaelis said.

Prosecutors and police said Monday that they considered Albakr an extremist with likely links to the Islamic State group. Germany's domestic intelligence agency had been watching him since September and alerted Saxony authorities about his alleged possible plot on Friday, authorities said.

also The Syrian heroes of Leipzig | News | DW.COM | 11.10.2016
 
Syrian terror suspect Jaber al-Bakr found dead in cell in Germany - BBC News
Chemnitz terror suspect Jaber Albakr found dead in cell | News | DW.COM | 12.10.2016
Syrian suspect in Germany bomb plot commits suicide - France 24
Jaber Albakr, a Syrian suspected of planning a terror attack in Germany, has been found dead in his jail cell. He was suspected of planning to carry out a bomb attack on an airport.
Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, said Albakr was preparing to carry out an attack on a Berlin airport within days before the raid on his apartment.

Albakr arrived in Germany last year and had been granted asylum after passing security checks. Investigators say they believe he was motivated by the "Islamic State" and may have become radicalized while in Germany.

Spiegel Online reported that Albakr had been under round-the-clock surveillance in police custody in Leipzig due to an acute risk of suicide and hunger strike. It was not yet clear how he had killed himself, Spiegel said. German news agency DPA reported that Albakr had hung himself in his cell
 
German terror suspect Jaber al-Bakr's jail death a scandal, says lawyer - BBC News
The death in a prison cell of a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany is a judicial scandal, his lawyer has said.

Jaber al-Bakr, 22, strangled himself in a jail in Leipzig with his shirt and the government has demanded an immediate inquiry.

His lawyer said the prison was aware Bakr was a suicide risk after he was captured on Monday.

Centre-right CDU politician Wolfgang Bosbach said it was a tragedy to lose such an important source of intelligence. (?Cynical or what?)
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After a two-day manhunt Bakr made his way to Leipzig, where he asked three Syrian asylum seekers for help.

The three told police they had heard about the manhunt and tied him up while one of them knelt on him. One of the men took a photo of the captive to a police station and he was detained in the early hours of Monday.

Widely hailed as heroes in Germany, the three men were apparently implicated by Bakr in the bomb plot, German media reported, citing security officials in Leipzig. (why did they turn him in then? to try to save themselves?)
 
robert99 said:
Widely hailed as heroes in Germany, the three men were apparently implicated by Bakr in the bomb plot, German media reported, citing security officials in Leipzig. (why did they turn him in then? to try to save themselves?)
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I would rather think he was trying to get back at them. If they were his accomplices, they likely would not have turned him in.
 
Terror suspect's brother: 'My reaction as an Arab is revenge' | News | DW.COM | 15.10.2016
(The guy's brother didn't buy the official story either, and maybe the 3 Syrian guys should have thought a bit longer before handing over their countryman)
The brother of deceased terror suspect Jaber Albakr issued a warning to the Syrian refugees who handed over his brother to the police in an exclusive interview with DW's Jaafar Abdul-Karim on Saturday.

"My reaction as an Arab is revenge."

When asked to clarify what he meant, Alaa Albakr said: "You understand. I have nothing more to say about it. I will come as a refugee."

Twenty-two-year-old Jaber was tied up and handed over to police in Leipzig on Monday by three other Syrian refugees, who have since been described as heroes. They reportedly invited the fugitive to stay in their apartment, only to realize shortly afterwards that Albakr was being sought after by police.

In his first video interview after his brother Jaber was found dead in a Leipzig jail cell after committing suicide, Alaa told DW he was convinced of his brother's innocence.

"I raised him. I know how he is. He is not a terrorist," he said.
 
From Hanover to 'IS': The case of Safia S. | Germany | DW.COM | 19.10.2016
In 2008, at the age of seven, Safia S. appeared alongside the controversial Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel in a YouTube video.

Her mother gave her a devout upbringing. She had to go to mosque every Friday and she memorized the Koran. Yet that is where the young girl came into contact with men who were dangerously manipulative.

A precarious memo sent to federal agencies by the State Office of Criminal Investigation of Lower Saxony (LKA) is among the investigative mistakes that has been discovered. The memo contains the line, "All-clear in the case of Safia S." And further: Upon examination, no concrete connection to "IS" found. The 15-year-old poses no threat. The date: February 25. Just one day later that assessment turned out to be a grave miscalculation.
 

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