They are alleged to have seriously injured journalist Oliver Ness during a demonstration in Hamburg in 1994. Ness had been thrown to the ground and violently assaulted by policemen, sustaining injuries including torn ligaments in his foot. The assault is also part of a parliamentary inquiry into police brutality conducted by a committee of the Hamburg state parliament. Eduscho recalls irons Bremen. Eduscho warns customers not to to use the iron and to return it instead for a full refund.
Armed forces undergo change Bonn.
Speaking at the special Cabinet meeting at the Hardthoehe Bundeswehr headquarters in Bonn, Ruehe said a major element of the Bundeswehr reform was to make national service more attractive. Furthermore, the formation of rapid deployment units for crisis situations was uppermost on the list. Early next week, the Foreign Ministers of the NATO member states are to start the planned NATO structural reform at their meeting in Berlin. At the Cabinet meeting today however, Ruehe did not receive any funding promises. Nevertheless, the undertaking was given not to include size and structure of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Government's austerity measures.