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Suspect dies after killing mother and taking hostages in Dresden shopping mall horror

German police say their 40-year-old suspect, who took hostages in a pharmacy in Dresden's central Altmarkt-Galerie district, went on a rampage in the city centre after executing his own 62-year-old mum

Daily Mirror

Germany says Dresden hostage taker was likely "confused" lone wolf

German authorities said they had ended a suspected hostage-taking in the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday by what appeared to be a psychologically confused man acting alone, after evacuating a shopping mall in the historic city centre.

Reuters

Hostage situation in Dresden shopping mall, German police confirm

Radio Dresden earlier reported that shots had been fired at a building near the main train station

The Independent UK

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4 Detained after Germany’s Largest Ever Heroin Seizure Traced Back to Iran

Four people were detained after police made their largest ever seizure of heroin in Germany, prosecutors said on Friday, with police confiscating some 700 kilograms (1,543 pounds) as part of an operation against a gang smuggling narcotics from Iran. The drugs were seized in the port city of Hamburg at…

Asharq Al-Awsat

English National Ballet announces Aaron Watkin as new artistic director

The 52-year-old Canadian will succeed Tamara Rojo in August 2023 and arrives after 16 years as artistic director of Semperoper Ballett in Dresden

The Guardian - UK

The surprising revival of eastern Germany

Once a byword for economic decline, the region is being transformed into the centre of Europe’s electric car industry

Financial Times

GlobalFoundries-STMicro Discuss Partnering For Chip Plant In France

GlobalFoundries Inc (NASDAQ:GFS) and STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE:STM) are amid discussions to build a semiconductor factory in France with the help of government funds, Bloomberg reports. The European Commission looks to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030. The European Union executive arm proposed the 43 billion euro ($45.3 billion) Chips Act earlier to…

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HEIST DID IT: Courtroom Confession From Gang Member In $126 Million Theft

A member of a well-known Arab crime family in Germany says he helped plan the jewelry robbery. The loot has never been recovered.

Zenger

VW Halting EV Production This Week Amid Ukraine Supply Issues

VW will stop ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, Audi Q4 e-tron, Q4 e-tron Sportback and Cupra Born production in Zwickau (March 1–4) and ID.3 assembly in Dresden (March 2–4).

InsideEVs

Intel Picks Magdeburg in Germany for New European Chip Factory

Intel has chosen the east German city of Magdeburg as the site for a new multibillion-euro European chip factory and will make the decision public on March 4, a person familiar with matter told Reuters. The company said in September it could invest as much as $95 billion in Europe…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Trial opens of six men accused of daring £95m Dresden jewellery heist

Suspects in carefully choreographed 2019 raid on city’s Green Vault appear in court amid tight security

The Guardian - UK

6 men on trial over spectacular Dresden museum jewelry heist

Six men have gone on trial in Germany over a spectacular theft of 18th-century treasures from Dresden’s Green Vault Museum in 2019

The Independent UK

Six Germans go on trial over $126 million Green Vault jewel heist

Six German men accused of involvement in a 2019 jewel heist at a museum housing one of Europe's greatest art collections appeared in court in Dresden on Friday, with the whereabouts of the treasures still a mystery.

Reuters

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