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Solingen
[ zoh-ling-uhn ]
noun
- a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr region.
Solingen
/ ˈzoːlɪŋən /
noun
- a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: a major European centre of the cutlery industry. Pop: 164 543 (2003 est)
Example Sentences
Around 150 officers raided two cannabis plantations - one in Mönchengladbach, to the west of Düsseldorf where 300 plants were found, and another in Solingen, to the east of the city, where 60 plants were found.
A Syrian failed asylum seeker stabbed three people to death in Solingen, while a young student was murdered by a Moroccan national near Paris.
The far-right AfD immediately used the Solingen stabbing as part of its election campaign for September’s regional election in Thuringia.
Two hours after the attack AfD regional leader Björn Höcke, who has been legally defined by German courts as a fascist and fined for using a Nazi slogan at rallies, posted on X “vote for change on 1.9” alongside the hashtag Solingen.
The latest political debate over migration started in August, after a stabbing in the town of Solingen, in which three people were killed.
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