He said the defendant, whose name was not given in line with German privacy ... and accompanied to a border crossing at the Friedrichstrasse railway station in East Berlin, according to prosecutors.

Police detected 13% fewer illegal border crossings into Germany in the first ... and they were introduced at the German-Austrian border back in autumn 2015. However, not every traveller is checked.

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided ...