Germany took in 280,000 asylum seekers in 2016, about one third of the previous year’s record figure, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. At the height of the huge refugee and migrant influx to Europe in 2015, a total of 890,000 people came seeking safe haven in the ...
Germany’s domestic security chief warned Sunday that the country’s radical “Islamist” scene is not only growing, but becoming more decentralized, posing greater challenges to surveillance operations. In an interview with national news agency DPA Chief , Hans-Georg Maassen also defended security officials under fire after it emerged that Berlin truck ...