The building was completely destroyed and damage of around DM 500,000 was caused by the blaze. Enforced teaching of Ethics is constitutional Mannheim. The teaching of Ethics at schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg is not is not against the constitution. The Higher Administrative Court in Mannheim has decided that pupils who do not take part in Religious Education must take Ethics as a subject. Neumann, a sociologist of religion from Tuebingen, had complained that forcing pupils to take Ethics if they refused to take Religious Education was against the constitutional right to freedom of religion.
Financial salesman gets seven years' jail sentence Mannheim.
Peter Haeberle, a financial and real estate salesman from Pforzheim, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for fraud. The 57-year old was found guilty of having defrauded several investors of a total of around DM 36 million between 1989 and 1995. He had cheated gullible clients over 1000 times with fraudulent promises of exceptionally high returns. Haeberle owned several firms. Drugs discovered in Turkish lorry Pirmasens.