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Man comes home to thief sleeping on couch

A Berlin man came home on Tuesday evening to find an apparent thief asleep on his couch.

Published: 13 May 2015 14:21 CEST
Man comes home to thief sleeping on couch
No word on what, exactly, the thief had been drinking. Photo: Shutterstock

The 65-year-old got back to his flat in Friedrichshagen at around 10.20 pm and discovered the seriously drunk man dozing in his living room, police reported.

Since the patio doors had been broken open and TV and computer equipment were missing, the owner quickly deduced that the intruder was a thief.

He called his 36-year-old neighbour to help, and the pair waited for the police to arrive – supplying the culprit with a further drink when he awoke from his stupor.

Later in the evening, U-Bahn passengers spotted two men at a U-Bahn station in Wilmersdorf with several bags and two televisions, including a 55-inch set.

Officers arrested the two men, a 21- and a 26-year-old, and found some of the missing possessions from the flat.

All three men are now in custody while police continue their investigation.

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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