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Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Germany updates: Mannheim to remember knife attack victim
German authorities will unveil a memorial plaque commemorating a police officer who died due to a knife attack in the city of Mannheim last year. In other news, the number of naturalizations in Germany hit a record level in 2024 after a citizenship reform went into effect. In regards to irregular migration, Germany's interior minister hopes for an EU-wide consensus on sending failed asylum seekers to third countries. Here's a roundup of the latest news stories from Germany on May 31, 2025: The western German city of Mannheim plans to remember the 29-year-old police officer Rouven Laur on Saturday in the market square where he was stabbed one year ago. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Thomas Strobl, and Mannheim Mayor Christian Specht are expected to unveil a memorial plaque providing information about the May 31, 2024, incident. A floor slab commemorating the Laur will also be presented. The fatal stabbing last year also wounded five people who participated in a rally organized by the anti-Islam Citizens' Movement Pax Europa (BPE). The now 26-year-old suspected Islamist perpetrator, identified as Sulaiman A, has been charged with murder and attempted murder. His trial has been taking place at the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court since February. Guten Tag from the team in DW's Bonn newsroom, where we bring you reports covering the main headlines in Germany. Here, you can read headlines, analyses, multimedia content, and DW on-the-ground reporting on everything to do with Europe's largest economy.
BBC News
05-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Cooper secures four-timer at Bishopscourt opener
English rider Richard Cooper won both Supersport races and the two Supertwins events to take a four-timer at the opening round of the Ulster Superbike series at Bishopscourt on BPE by Russell Racing Yamaha-mounted competitor from Nottingham secured healthy advantages of 12.5 seconds and 8.5 seconds over runner-up Korie McGreevy in the Supersport outings, with Graeme Irwin third on both came home ahead of Gary McCoy and Caolan Irwin in the Twins edged out Cooper in the first Superbike race of the day on his McAdoo Racing Kawasaki, with Andy Reid making up the podium positions and McCoy, Michael Sweeney and Jonny Campbell completing the top six took race two by a mere 0.07 seconds from McGreevy, followed by Cooper, Carl Phillips, Reid and Ross Irwin, with Campbell his Burrows Engineering by RK Racing machinery, Manxman Conor Cummins was ninth in both Superbike races and claimed fourth and sixth place finishes in the Burrows was a convincing winner of both Lightweight events.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Yahoo
Mannheim knife attacker admits guilt, expresses remorse
A 26-year-old man on trial for the murder of a police officer and injury to five others on the market square of the German city of Mannheim in May last year on Tuesday admitted guilt and expressed remorse. The Afghan man, identified under privacy law as Sulaiman A, said the war in the Gaza Strip had changed his life and was the motive for his attack on a rally called by the anti-Islam activist group Pax Europa (BPE). He is charged with murder and attempted murder. Five rally participants and police officer Rouven Laur, 29, were injured in the May 31 attack. Laur died in hospital two days later. Another officer disabled the attacker with a gunshot. The accused said he had spoken about killing unbelievers in Telegram chats with a cleric and collected information on the Islamic State terrorist group. "I will say how I came to commit this terrible crime," Sulaiman A told the court, describing how he aimed to kill BPE leader Michael Stürzenberger. Stürzenberger was one of the people injured. "My life changed with the start of this Gaza war," he said, revealing that he had viewed Telegram channels showing dead men, women and children. "I cried every day," he said. The trial began in February and is scheduled to run until the end of October.
