Crime News from Germany

Since the 20 September election, 72 Berlin police officers have asked about or applied for moves to other German states, most of them to Baden-Württemberg.

Security authorities plan a larger operation as youth groups call demonstrations across Germany, with more than 1,000 people signalling they will join a Nuremberg rally.

Hamburg police and the fire service were called out on Thursday afternoon after deer blocked the A25 and caused traffic jams.

Prosecutors in Darmstadt have charged four people, including a man from Offenbach and a former Cologne official, over paid marriages used to obtain German residence permits.

Focus Online reports that 72 Berlin officers have asked to leave since the Left won the city election, against 22 transfers in the whole of last year.

Since Berlin's state election, at least 72 officers have asked to move, far above the 22 transfers recorded in all of 2025, a Focus online survey found.

Austrian police located two German teenagers and a Hungarian companion unharmed in a mountain hut after relatives lost contact during a hike in the Schober group.

Berlin state police have dissolved the elite unit guarding US chargé d'affaires Alan Meltzer after staff reported that officers drank while on duty.

A Canadian who lost his savings pursued the fraudsters, while Bavarian prosecutor Nino Goldbeck followed the network from Eastern European call centres to a mafia family in Israel.

Researchers in Berlin doubt France-style escalation, while the police union chief warns Halloween has already brought firecrackers, fires and smashed shop windows.

The youth movement genz-regelt plans demonstrations on 31 October in 21 German cities, while authorities warn of possible left-extremist violence and police prepare.