Government bans pension reduction

Berlin - The approximately 20 million retirees remain in the future, even in economically bad times spared from cuts in pensions.
This was decided by the federal cabinet. Work Minis ter Olaf Scholz (SPD): "Pensions are not reduced. Then you can rely on. "
 The warranty's not there for nothing: Pensioners need them later when funding increases capped improve the situation by itself, so the decision. If the pension guarantee claimed, the costs are compensated for in 2011 by halving the pension increases again.
Half pension increases? It is possible that not even the inside. For the pensioners have to adjust to the fact that in the next few years, there are no increases in their salaries. SPD leader Franz Muentefering has warned time: zero rounds are possible. Pensions expert Bernd Raffelhüschen goes further. He says: "By 2020, threatens to zero rounds."
And still has a negative consequence of the Government decision - and makes all workers: The expected reduction in the pension contribution rate from 19.9 to 19.2 percent in 2012 is likely to be. Raffelhüschen even assumes that the rates increase to 21% within five years.
Critics see in the pension guarantee a dummy package that aims to propitiate 20 million potential voters. Here, the government parties can see clearly a need for action: For since the beginning of the decade, retirees have lost 8.5 percent of its purchasing power - through clear rounds, mini-retirement increases, increased health and Pflegekos States, price increases.
With the guarantee may have been the first cut pensions prevented since the introduction of the dynamic pensions 1957th At that time, the pension increases were linked to the increase in average wages. And because that never fell, there was no pension reductions. That could be this year due to massive short-time work for the first time different.

Joerg Tauss indictment charged

Karlsruhe - The former SPD must Ordered to stand trial in court. Karlsruhe has the Prosecutor's indictments. Tauss said to have purchased and distributed child pornography.
The prosecution could be brought after the lifting of his immunity. Bought possessed against the 56-Jährigenbestehe "reasonable suspicion", between May 2007 and January2009 in more than 100 cases, files containing child pornography, or passed on. It shared the KarlsruherStaatsanwaltschaft on Wednesday. The relevant material had been confiscated beiHausdurchsuchungen.
The former SPD deputy Tauss, who is now a member derPiratenpartei, denies the allegations. It indicates, however, in Zugevon search against a child porn ring has become active is spent on parliamentary immunity was lifted on Tuesday by Tauss.
According to the Prosecution has Tauss Dateienmit total of more than 300 pictures and videos purchased and stored, inter alia, seinemMobiltelefon. SeienKinderpornos been loaded on most of these files, shared with the prosecution. Besides the self-owned Tauss also had six pictures and other Videosan sent.
In a house search in Berlin in early March had zudemweiteres "predominantly child pornography material" gefundenworden. Tauss' statement that he had as a politician on his own Faustrecherchiert, the prosecutors gave no credence, "DieErmittlungen have no objective evidence of the correctness of this claim arising," it says in a statement.

Million-prey perpetrators looted watches and jewelry

Berlin - Spectacular burglary at KaDeWe: Unbekanntehaben weekend in Berlin's upmarket department store jewelry and Uhrengestohlen.
The offenders had broken through the roof, cabinets hattenmehrere forced open and smashed display cases, diePolizei said on Monday.
Was affected, according to a spokeswoman, the KaDeWe "Christian" store on the ground floor.
According to the Berliner Zeitung, "the loot is worth a million Eurohaben. In addition, those who were police, the jeweler and the Kaufhausnicht.
   A security guard was alerted to the burglary, according to police on Montagmorgenbemerkt and the police. To watch and black Schmuckfilialewurden trellises built. Investigators secured behind traces. The store did not close, the operation went on.
   A spokeswoman for the management of the Hagen-retail jeweler "Christ" said that after consultation with the police to express wollesich the company earlier on Tuesday about the incident.
   KaDeWe, the 2007 marks the 100th Birthday celebrated togetherness is one retail space of 60,000 square meters and about 50.000Besuchern daily undist the most famous department stores in Germany is a tourist attraction in the capital.

Bonner Abzocker pair must go to jail

Bonn - The fraudsters-club for children in community psychiatry: Thomas (39) and Claudia (40) M. need up to four years in prison.
That the district court ruled on Friday. The bookkeeper and the managing director have treated themselves with embezzled 2.3 million euros a luxury life at the expense of the disabled.
An incredulous murmur went through the audience, as outlined Judge Marc Eumann the professional goals of Claudia M.. The former work colleagues in the audience refused to believe that the former managing director wants to earn more precisely in the social sphere their sandwiches - as self-employed with a mobile service.
This will take a bit though. Previously, their punishment must Claudia M. for 71 cases of infidelity do time in the women's prison: three years and eight months. Thomas conceded husband's infidelity four months more because he has made the first withdrawals without the knowledge of his partner. For two years, nearly every week transferred M. 35000 euro to his own account - interrupted only by the family vacation in Italy Cattolica.
The court criticized the sites in-house audits of branches of the Association and its charitable work. This was not noticed that the couple had destroyed incriminating statements. Neumann:
"From accountants can expect that they will examine the completeness of the dossier." Therefore, the couple was carefully M.. It led through his actions tidy book. The prosecutor "thanked" in the Hausdurch investigation.

FC apologized to victims of corporal punishment

Cologne --
The whipping scenes from Friday at Bochum on Sunday still looked after.
Cologne rioters tried to storm the block and had some huge fights with the police.
A folder suffered broken bones and internal injuries (suspected Milzriss). After he was treated in a hospital in Bochum, he could be brought to Cologne on Sunday. For the FC fans had calculated the one at the Bochum Cologne security forces brutally beaten.
He had tried to reason with the "fans" who have broken through the barriers, who reported seriously injured and had to be written now in his main job for the time being sick. The hooligans were, however, was only to violence and beatings from. FC manager Michael Meier wants to apologize to the man for the behavior of hooligans in Cologne.
"Every casualty is one too many. This may not be the whole point. Since we can not off the agenda. We do a lot, I have personally used again and again and have twice gone to Gladbach. We will not get tired to continue that, "says the manager, wants to pass the Monday with a bouquet of flowers in the folder. Meier is concerned about the increasing violence, "The dimensions are not traceable. We need to explore the root causes of violence. "
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