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Customs agents carried out a court-ordered raid on the luxury lakeside villa of an unidentified Russian national. The individual is subject to EU sanctions and asset seizures. German police, tax investigators and customs agents in the southern German state of Bavaria carried out a raid on a villa belonging to an unnamed Russian individual on Thursday. Officials carrying out the court-ordered search say the unnamed individual is subject to EU sanctions and asset seizures put in place after Moscow's invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. "Due to tactical reasons related to the investigation, no further information can be provided," customs officials said. Reuters news agency reported that the raid targetted Alisher Usmanov, a Russian-Uzbek businessman who was sanctioned in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Photos from the scene showed agents seizing numerous German-made luxury vehicles. The villa targeted by officials is located in Rottach...

  Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (56, CSU) is sticking by his deputy Hubert Aiwanger (52, Free Voters) despite the leaflet affair. He explained this on Sunday, admitting: “I know that not everyone will like my decision, there remain residual doubts.” But a current survey now shows: The majority of Germans support Söder's decision! ► As a Forsa survey for “Stern” showed, 58 percent of Germans think Söder’s decision to keep Aiwanger in office was correct. 34 percent are of the opinion that Söder should have fired Aiwanger. Another eight percent did not provide any information. According to the survey, approval is particularly high among voters for the CSU (92 percent), the AfD (86 percent), the CDU (77 percent) and the FDP (72 percent). In contrast, the majority of supporters of the SPD (65 percent) and the Greens (71 percent) believed that it was right to dismiss the free-voter politician. In Bavaria, the result was even clearer than in the federal government: Here, 72 pe...

Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder sent his deputy 25 questions to clarify the anti-Semitism allegations against him. In the morning, Söder put pressure on him again. In the evening, Aiwanger provided the answers - now it's Söder's turn.In the affair of an anti-Semitic leaflet, Bavaria's Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger answered questions from Prime Minister Markus Söder about the allegations in writing. His answers were delivered in the evening. The State Chancellery confirmed receipt.This brings the Aiwanger affair to a crucial point: it is now CSU leader Söder's turn and must decide whether or not to fire Aiwanger a month before the state elections on October 8th. It remained unclear when he would publicly announce this decision. Söder wanted an answer "during the day"In the morning, Söder had increased the time pressure on Aiwanger to quickly answer Tuesday's list of questions. “It is important to me that the 25 questions are now answe...

  Bavaria's Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger (52, Free Voters) Aschau im Chiemgau (Bavaria) – Will he come or not – that was the exciting question for many Aschau residents. And HE came. Bavaria's deputy head of government Hubert Aiwanger (52) opened the “Aschauer Markt” folk festival yesterday evening. At 6:57 p.m. he entered the tent, which was filled to capacity. The crowd roared, cheered and applauded him. Occasional shouts of “Bravo Hubert” could also be heard. ▶︎ At 7:10 p.m. he took the first sip of his beer and put a hop crown on his party colleague Barbara Stein's head. At 7:30 p.m. he took the stage to applause from the audience. Previously, his “Free Voters” colleague Sepp Lausch lashed out at his boss. “He is the last and only politician who still dares to open his mouth and shows backbone,” he cheered. Aiwanger was happy to take the ball, his commitment: “Dear friends of common sense, welcome here in the beer tent.” Aiwanger remains silent about the Auschw...

  The climate stickers continue - and want to paralyze Bavaria! The radical activists of the "Last Generation" want to move their protest to Bavaria from Monday. The occasion is the ceremony on the island of Herrenchiemsee, where the constitutional convention is celebrated: In 1948, the foundation stone for the Basic Law was laid there. The "last generation" sees this as the legitimacy for their adhesive protest. The crude reason: "We are taking to the streets in Bavaria because we are protesting against the federal government's breach of the constitution in the state where our constitution was written 75 years ago." The activists did not announce exactly where and when which actions are planned. But one thing is clear: If the climate stickers implement their protest threat, it will cause inconvenience for many Bavarians. The activists don't care: They accuse politicians of "defencelessly handing over humanity to the climate catastrophe" ...