May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Winnenden":
National: 26 Apr 12
Ten years after Germany’s worst school shooting, in which a former pupil killed 16 people before committing suicide, politicians are set to lay the foundations for a national gun-owners’ register.
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Politics: 24 Mar 11
Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has ruled Baden-Württemberg since 1953, but the political fallout in Germany from Japan's nuclear crisis could spell the end in a key state election Sunday.
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Society: 13 Feb 11
As details of gun ownership are gathered in Germany for a new national register, it has emerged that 6.3 million weapons are registered in private households in the country.
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National: 10 Feb 11
Two years after a deadly school rampage in the southern German town of Winnenden, the father of the shooter was given a suspended sentence because he failed to keep the gun used in the killings locked away.
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Society: 9 Nov 10
A specially-appointed “lay judge” in the weapons case against the father of the Winnenden school killer has been sacked after he drunkenly abused police officers in Stuttgart, a court announced Tuesday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Sep 10
Following another deadly shooting rampage with a legally owned sporting weapon over the weekend, newspapers in The Local’s Media Roundup questioned whether protecting the rights of gun owners outweighs the risks.
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National: 21 Sep 10
A senior government lawmaker rejected calls on Tuesday for a ban on keeping sports and hunting weapons in private homes after it emerged the Lörrach gunwoman was a recreational shooter who owned the murder weapon legally.
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National: 20 Sep 10
Police on Monday were investigating a possible child custody dispute as the motive behind a bloody rampage by a woman in the southwestern German town of Lörrach that left four people dead.
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National: 19 Sep 10
Four people died and a police officer was seriously wounded on Sunday after an explosion and a shootout that ended at a hospital in the southwestern German town of Lörrach.
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National: 16 Sep 10
The trial of the father of Tim Kretschmer, the teen who shot dead 15 people and himself in Winnenden last year, started Thursday in Stuttgart. He faces charges of violating weapons laws by leaving the gun used in the massacre unlocked.
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National: 6 May 10
The father of Tim Kretschmer, the teenager who shot dead 15 people at his former school in Winnenden last year, will not face charges of negligent homicide as previously expected, a court announced Thursday.
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National: 11 Mar 10
Amid memorials on the one year anniversary of the deadly Winnenden school shooting on Thursday, politicians and law enforcement authorities bickered over whether changes to weapon laws have been successful.
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National: 19 Feb 10
Police issued an arrest warrant on Friday for the 23-year-old man who is suspected of stabbing his former teacher to death at a Ludwigshafen vocational school on Thursday. A search of his apartment revealed a stockpile of weaponry.
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National: 18 Feb 10
A former student is suspected of stabbing a teacher to death at a vocational school in Ludwigshafen on Thursday, but the police said a quick evacuation of the facility likely avoided a wider bloodbath.
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National: 31 Dec 09
As 2010 kicks off, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention during the past year in Germany.
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National: 27 Nov 09
Prosecutors in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on Friday pressed manslaughter charges against the father of a 17-year-old boy who killed 15 people during a rampage started at his old school in March.
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National: 24 Nov 09
A 16-year-old girl who tried to firebomb her school near Bonn in May and attacked a fellow pupil with a sword was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in a juvenile detention centre.
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National: 12 Nov 09
The father of the boy who killed 15 people in Winnenden last spring faces charges of negligent manslaughter for not securing the gun used in the rampage, the Baden-Württemberg justice ministry said Thursday.
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National: 2 Nov 09
A new foundation being formed to prevent school attacks has announced plans to create an early-warning system and 24-hour hotline for students to report threats.
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Society: 28 Sep 09
A high school in Duisburg will be closed on Monday after its director received a threatening email, police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported.
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National: 18 Sep 09
Police said on Friday they still didn’t know the motive of an axe-wielding 18-year-old who injured nine students and one teacher at a school in Ansbach, Bavaria despite finding letters showing he planned the rampage.
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National: 17 Sep 09
An 18-year-old went on a rampage with an axe and Molotov cocktails at a school in Ansbach in southern Germany on Thursday, injuring nine of his fellow students. The assailant is in critical condition after being shot by police.
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National: 8 Sep 09
The teenage boy responsible for the Winnenden school massacre in southwestern Germany last March was apparently haunted by killing fantasies long before his rampage left 15 people dead.
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National: 19 Aug 09
A German pensioner who went on a shooting rampage near Düsseldorf that left three people dead did so in order to teach people "not to mess" with him or his family, police said on Wednesday.
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National: 26 Jul 09
A committee of experts has proposed that schools be equipped with an alarm system for shooting sprees, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
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Society: 10 Jul 09
A four-year-old girl went on a joyride with a forklift in Winnenden, rolling it into a heating-oil tank and spilling some 500 litres of fuel into the sewer, police said Friday.
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National: 19 Jun 09
Three months after a teenage gunman killed 15 people in the southwestern town of Winnenden, the German parliament has tightened the country’s gun laws.
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Society: 29 May 09
A 15-year-old was apprehended by police in the Hessian town of Kirchhain after threatening a school killing on an internet forum, authorities reported on Friday.
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National: 22 May 09
The German Press Council, a voluntary self-monitoring watchdog organisation for journalists, condemned tabloid Bild's coverage of the Winnenden school shooting in a statement released on its website Friday.
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National: 14 May 09
Germany’s grand coalition government wants to rush a new gun control law through parliament, but has apparently ditched unpopular plans to ban paintball.
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National: 12 May 09
Investigators have found a homemade bomb in the room of a 16-year-old girl who planned to torch her school and attacked another student with a knife near Bonn, the website of magazine Focus reported on Tuesday.
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National: 11 May 09
A teenage girl is on the run on Monday after attacking a fellow student in Sankt Augustin near Bonn. She apparently planned to burn the school down.
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National: 7 May 09
The German government has agreed to tighten gun laws and ban games such as paintball and laser tag because lawmakers say they “simulate killing” that could spark tragedies such as the Winnenden school massacre.
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Politics: 6 May 09
Police staged a massive operation in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein to arrest a boy on Wednesday after fellow classmates revealed his plans to commit a school shooting.
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National: 3 May 09
The family of Tim Kretschmer, who shot dead 15 people in and around his school in Winnenden in March before killing himself, has moved away amid hostility in the community.
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National: 18 Apr 09
Following a deadly school shooting last month, the interior ministers of Germany’s 16 states are planning to offer amnesty to anyone who turns in an illegal weapon, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
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National: 7 Apr 09
A 60-year-old man shot and killed his sister-in-law and injured two others before killing himself at around 10:15 am on Tuesday morning at a district court in Landshut, Bavaria.
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National: 23 Mar 09
Normal lessons resumed on Monday for pupils at a school in Germany where a teenager massacred nine students and three teachers earlier this month, the school said.
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National: 21 Mar 09
Speaking at the memorial church service in Winnenden, German President Horst Köhler spoke out against ultra-violent computer games and films, calling for the political world and society in general to reject them.
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Politics: 21 Mar 09
As Winnenden gathered on Saturday to mourn those killed in the massacre, the families of five victims called for laws to keep children away from guns, ban violent video games and restrict reporting of such attacks.
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National: 18 Mar 09
As the state and federal German officials remembered the victims of the Winnenden school massacre on Wednesday, a hostage held by the teen killer for two hours revealed details of his terrifying experience.
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National: 18 Mar 09
One week after the deadly school massacre in Winnenden, a poll released on Wednesday shows an overwhelming majority of Germans support stricter gun control.
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National: 17 Mar 09
The family of a 17-year-old who shot dead 15 people in southwestern Germany last week before turning the gun on himself apologised to his victims and their families in a letter published on Tuesday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Mar 09
Tragic incidents such as the recent school shooting in Winnenden cannot be prevented simply by banning violent video games, argues Olaf Wolters from Germany’s BIU Association of Interactive Entertainment Software.
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National: 16 Mar 09
Police are now investigating the father of the teenage gunman who murdered 15 people last week for negligent homicide. It also emerged the teen took target practice at his father's gun club just weeks before the massacre.
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National: 15 Mar 09
After the first victim of the Winnenden school massacre was buried on Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested surprise visits to gun owners to see if they are storing their weapons properly.
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National: 14 Mar 09
As Winnenden prepares to bury the 15 people shot dead by Tim Kretschmer on Wednesday, further details have emerged about possible influences which led to the 17-year-old committing mass murder.
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National: 13 Mar 09
German authorities said on Friday they would need another two days to work out whether a supposed internet threat from the teenager who went on a deadly rampage at his old school this week was a hoax.
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National: 13 Mar 09
German police said late on Thursday they were probing whether a supposed internet threat from the teenager who went on a deadly rampage at his old school this week might be fake.
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National: 12 Mar 09
The teenage gunman who murdered 15 people in southwestern Germany announced his intention to create a bloodbath just hours beforehand in an internet chatroom, a state official said on Thursday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Mar 09
Could the Winnenden massacre have been prevented? With the nation still in shock, German newspapers in The Local’s media roundup engage in some soul-searching following the bloody school rampage in Baden-Württemberg.
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Society: 12 Mar 09
Is Germany at greater risk for school massacres such as Winnenden? Psychologist Jens Hoffmann from Darmstadt University discusses how the latest tragedy has revived memories of Erfurt and Columbine.
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Society: 12 Mar 09
The dead gunman from Winnenden, Tim Kretschmer, had shot other teenagers before with his collection of air guns, alienating those who tried to befriend him, according to German media reports.
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National: 12 Mar 09
Authorities said they had found the first indications for the motive behind one of the worst school massacres in Germany’s history on Thursday, a day after a teen gunman murdered 15 people in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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National: 11 Mar 09
All but one of the nine pupils killed and seven injured in a German school massacre on Wednesday were girls, a local official said. The three slain teachers were also women.
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National: 11 Mar 09
A teenage gunman who shot dead 15 people, including nine students and three teachers at his former school in southwestern Germany, killed himself after a shoot-out with police on Wednesday.
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National: 11 Mar 09
Germany was in shock on Wednesday after one of the country’s deadliest school shootings ever left sixteen people dead. Chancellor Angela Merkel called the tragedy “incomprehensible.”
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National: 11 Mar 09
Police have sealed off a small town in southwestern Germany near Stuttgart and are hunting down a gunman who they say shot dead 15 people and injured many more before fleeing into the streets.
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