GERMANY TIMELINE - JULY 2015 to FEBRUARY 2016

"First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin"

-Leonard Cohen

BBC News, ITV News, SKY News, Daily Express,

Greece, Bail-Out, Migrants, Violence, Terrorism, Train Crash, Financial Collapse ?

JULY 2015

Friday 10^th July 2015

German man held over twin shooting

Thursday 16^th July 2015

'book keeper of Auschwitz' guilty of being accessory to 300,000 murders (ITV)

Friday 17^th July 2015

German MPs debate Greek bailout vote

AUGUST 2015

Monday 10^th August 2015

Gunshot fired at German football team's bus (ITV)

Wednesday 19^th August 2015

German MPs urged to back Greek deal

Sunday 30^th August 2015

Dresden rally in support of refugees

SEPTEMBER 2015

Tuesday 1^st September 2015

Migrant trains reach Munich station

Saturday 5^th September 2015

Germany expecting 10,000 refugees in just one day (ITV)

Saturday 12^th September 2015

Germany prepares for 40,000 migrants

Friday 18^th September 2015

Terrorist shot in Berlin after attacking police officer (ITV)

Tuesday 22^nd September 2015

German police raid properties 'used by islamists' (ITV)

Friday 25^th September 2015

German regions get more migrant funds

Monday 28^th September 2015

German minister denies plagiarism

OCTOBER 2015

Friday 2^nd October 2015

Hamburg property grab for migrants

Monday 5^th October 2015

Germany 'facing 1.5million migrants'

Saturday 10^th October 2015

Big rise in German attacks on migrants

Sunday 18^th October 2015

German politician stabbed in the neck

Monday 19^th October 2015

Stabbed German candidate elected mayor

Thursday 22^nd October 2015

Germany reaffirms Holocaust culpability

Wednesday 28^th October 2015

Scandal hit Volkswagen posts £2.5bn third quarter loss (ITV)

Saturday 31^st October 2015

Germany seeks to slow migrant flow(BBC)

NOVEMBER 2015

Monday 2^nd November 2015

Berlin wall blunderer dies at 86

Friday 6^th November 2015

Germany to fast track asylum returns

Saturday 14^th November 2015

Bodies of 7 dead babies found in German house (ITV)

Thursday 26^th November 2015

Germany vows to do more against IS

Monday 30^th November 2015

Hamburg says 'no' to 2024 Olympics

DECEMBER 2015

Tuesday 1^st December 2015

German cabinet approves IS mission (BBC)

Wednesday 2^nd December 2015

Hitler's Mein Kampf to be republished

Friday 4^th December 2015

Germany to vote on Syria mission

Wednesday 9^th December 2015

Germany neo-Nazi suspect breaks silence (beate zschaepe)

Friday 11^th December 2015

Germany heading for financial MELTDOWN set to sink the EU, says leading expert (Daily Express)

Saturday 12^th December 2015

Germany in nuclear fusion 'milestone'

Tuesday 15^th December 2015

Merkel U TURN: panicking Germany vows to REDUCE migrant numbers as they edge to 1.5m (Daily Express)

JANUARY 2016

Friday 1^st January 2016

Munich alert over 'IS attack threat'

Munich reopens railway stations after terror alert (ITV)

Islamic state plotted 'serious' attack in Munich (Sky News)

Saturday 2^nd January 2016

Police have no clues on Munich 'terror attack plot' suspects (ITV)

'concrete tip' led to Munich terror crackdown (Sky News)

Tuesday 5^th January 2016

Gang assaults on women shock cologne

Wednesday 6^th January 2016

Protest over Cologne attacks on women

Protests in Cologne after new year's eve sex assaults (ITV)

Protest after NYE mass sex assault on 90 women (Sky News)

Thursday 7^th January 2016

Call for rethink after Cologne attacks

Cologne: police criticised after new year's eve sex assaults (ITV)

Calls for police chief to quit over sex attacks (Sky News)

Friday 8^th January 2016

Asylum seekers among Cologne suspects

'mostly asylum seekers' questioned over cologne new year attacks (ITV)

Hitler's Mein Kampf goes on sale in Germany for first time since WW2 (ITV)

Saturday 9^th January 2016

Merkel considers tougher migrant laws

Sunday 10^th January 2016

Arrests as police clash with protesters in Cologne (ITV)

Monday 11^th January 2016

Cologne crime cases now above 500

Tuesday 12^th January 2016

Germany returns migrants to Austria

Thursday 14^th January 2016

Germany's warm welcome for refugees begins to cool (ITV)

Saturday 16^th January 2016

Migrant men banned from German pool

Saturday 23^rd January 2016

German rapist escapes on beer hall visit (Sky News)

Friday 29^th January 2016

Germany moves to cut asylum claims

40% of Germans want Merkel out over migrants (Sky News)

Sunday 31^st January 2016

German police 'should shoot at migrants'

FEBRUARY 2016

Thursday 4^th February 2016

Cologne security tight for carnival

ITV new goes on patrol with Germany's vigilantes (ITV)

Friday 5^th February 2016

Sex attacks at Cologne carnival

Saturday 6^th February 2016

Reported sex attacks double at Cologne carnival (Sky News)

Tuesday 9^th February 2016

German trains in deadly head on crash (Munich,Bavaria)

Wednesday 10^th February 2016

German train controller 'error' denied

Thursday 11^th February 2016

Algerian sex attacker shouted 'if Allah wills it' as he raped German student (Daily Express)

Friday 12^th February 2016

Cologne mass sex attack' was organised and plotted on social media' says police chief (Daily Express)

Sunday 14^th February 2016

Ai Weiwei covers Berlin landmark in used life jackets (ITV)

Tuesday 16^th February 2016

Now Germany says it expects half a million more migrants to arrive this year alone (Daily Express)