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Hate crime figures leaked by police in Germany have caused alarm, as they revealed murder, assault, and arson numbering among almost 100 attacks which targeted Christians in 2017.

Almost half of the individuals suspected of a recorded crime in Berlin last year were individuals who don’t have a German passport, the latest police statistics show.

The German Church has stepped up criticism of government and EU migration policies, with senior figures stating that Europe “has room for more refugees”.

Germany (AP) — A district court in Germany has opened a trial against a migrant accused of raping and killing a 19-year-old female medical student in the southwestern city of Freiburg last year, in a case that fueled a nationwide debate about the country’s migration policy.

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday stood by her decision to open Germany’s borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees two years ago, a move she has previously defended as a necessary response to a humanitarian emergency.

An almost inconsequentially small number of migrants (0.36 per cent) applying for asylum in Germany last year should have done so according to EU law, as they had not passed through other safe nations before getting there.

Staff working at Rommerskirchen’s City Hall will be trained in self-defence after an Iraqi refugee and her ten children rioted against Social Services on Monday.

The number of sexual assaults by asylum seekers recorded in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in 2016 close to doubled from the 2015 recorded figure. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the number of crimes of a sexual nature

Germany has seen a massive increase in the number of women and girls affected by female genital mutilation (FGM), as a result of mass migration from Africa and the Middle East. Women’s rights NGO Terre des Femmes estimates that around

Figures show that almost every second Turk of working age in Germany is “economically inactive”, meaning they are either not in work or officially registered as unemployed.

For the first time, more than half of Frankfurt residents now have a migrant background, according to official data from the city’s Office of Statistics and Elections.

An asylum seeker diagnosed with tuberculosis who visited at a kindergarten several times in Bünsdorf, Germany, may have infected as many as 18 children and four adults with the disease.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s highest court has upheld a complaint by a Syrian whose asylum claim was rejected because he’d already been granted asylum in Greece.

German culture does not exist and the nation’s history has been shaped by “immigration and diversity”, according to Federal Integration Commissioner Aydan Özoğuz, who has argued migrants shouldn’t be expected to assimilate.

Young Somalis in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania have “demolished” their kitchen and living quarters during a violent “rampage” in which they demanded PlayStations and more pocket money.

A Jewish student was the victim of verbal and physical assaults from Muslim classmates and has been forced to leave the school in what Jewish groups are calling “anti-Semitism of the evilest kind”.

Muslim parents in Berlin have furiously protested against a kindergarten after learning that one of its staff members is a homosexual man, with a number of families withdrawing their children when the daycare centre refused to sack him.

Politicians have slammed a prosecutor’s decision to almost immediately free migrants who hurled a man onto the railway tracks at Dresden-Zschachwitz S-Bahn station as the train approached.

Authorities in two German states have expressed concern over official figures showing a huge rise in migrant crime, with the number of violent attacks having almost doubled in 2016.

Pro-migration NGOs on Wednesday demanded the federal government transport to Germany around 25,000 migrants currently living in Italy and Greece.

Germany has drafted a new law allowing authorities to tap into the phone and computer data of migrants to confirm their nationalities and tackle immigration and benefit fraud.

Families minister Manuela Schwesig has pledged to do more to protect children in Germany from right wing “hipsters” who post messages about migrant criminality on social media. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) minister was speaking at a press conference last

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested two German-Moroccan brothers suspected of being members of the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front extremist groups.

KABUL (AFP) – Germany deported a second batch of would-be Afghan refugees to Kabul Tuesday under a disputed Afghan-EU deal signed last October and aimed at curbing the influx of migrants.

A new report from the Hamburg parliament by the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) showed that 45.5 percent of suspects in sex attacks in 2015 were non-Germans. On Friday the AfD faction in the Hamburg parliament published a new

At New Year’s Eve celebrations in Dortmund, a mob of more than 1,000 men chanted ‘Allahu Akhbar’, launched fireworks at police and set fire to an historic church.

Germany received more asylum requests in 2016 than the rest of the European Union (EU) combined. In response to the report, the Bundestag vice-president warned Germany’s migrant crisis was not over.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has said German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door mass migration policy has “saved our collective dignity,” and warned that criticism of Merkel was a “disgusting simplification.”

Language classes and the recruiting of ‘Islam scientists’ are among measures announced by North Rhine-Westphalia’s (NRW) justice ministry to combat the rising number of ‘disgust attacks’ in prisons by Maghreb migrants.

The vice president of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, fears that the number of Syrian migrants will double due to family reunification laws alone.

A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said illegal migrants such as Christmas market attack suspect Anis Amri play the German asylum system and should not have been in the country in the first place.

Hope Not Hate has threatened to take Nigel Farage to court after the Brexit leader highlighted the Soros-funded group’s extremist leanings in an interview on LBC radio.

Shocking CCTV footage has come to light which shows an Arab kicking a young German woman down a flight of stairs at a subway station in Berlin.

An “expert” from the George Soros-funded and founded European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) claims intelligence agencies in Russia and Syria could set migrant sex mobs on German women in order to swing the country’s federal election. Bild, Germany’s largest

Germany Development Minister Gerd Müller has announced a three year plan to encourage migrants to return to their homelands. The programme will help rejected asylum seekers, and also migrants who want to return voluntarily, make a new start in their

A Syrian couple who were celebrated in the media for naming their child Angela Merkel after migrating to Germany have had their asylum application rejected.