The police admits that it is powerless to do anything apart from taking down reports, processing them, and passing them on to the public prosecutor's office which then informs the youth welfare department, whose hands, however, are also tied. The minister of education and cultural affairs for Lower Saxony called on the teachers involved to find a sensible middle course between the best educational theory and the degree of severity which is necessary, but this will hardly affect the teachers at Wiesmohr comprehensive school. Since the two leaders of the gang, an 11 year old and a 13 year old who originate from the Lebanon, were suspended from school for three months, they have never come back. Murdered girl was raped Rastatt. One of the two girls who were murdered last Friday had been raped in April, but no connection exists between the murder and the rape, according to the Public Prosecutor.
Police discover ring dealing with stolen goods Hamburg.
The police have discovered a ring dealing with stolen goods. During a raid, they seized DM one million's worth of designer clothes. 27th Protestant church congress Leipzig. The congress is taking place in eastern Germany for the first time since the re-unification and a key theme at the congress is 'east meets west' and 'west meets east'. The church's role as mediator between the state and the people will be stressed but so will the fact that some members were fellow travellers with the communists and some were political criminals.