"I was crying," says Alya, when she saw news of last week's Munich attack that left a toddler and her mother dead.

"Why should someone do something like that? Why? I can't understand it."

An Afghan man's in custody after what was the latest in a series of attacks in German cities where the suspect has been an asylum seeker.

Germans will be voting in a general election next weekend.

The country has the largest population - 84 million - and the biggest economy in Europe with a GDP of $4.5trn, but its elections are usually dull affairs.

Since the Second World War, there has been agreement between the two ruling centre-right and centre-left political groupings, who have even ended up sometimes forming a grand coalition.

A 60 Minutes segment on Germany's approach to policing online speech has ignited fierce debate on both sides of the Atlantic after it aired in the U.S. on Sunday. Critics have called the country's laws "Orwellian," while defenders insist they are necessary to prevent hate-fueled violence.

The weekend programming over at CBS was unusually focused on speech norms and censorship in Germany. First, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan casually asserted that free speech is what empowered the Nazis to take over the government and implement the Holocaust; then, 60 Minutes conducted an interview with present-day German authorities in which they detailed their efforts to suppress not just Nazi speech but also misinformation, gossip, and insults toward politicians.

JD Vance spoke over the weekend at the Munich security conference on behalf of the United States -- the primary topic was Ukraine, for obvious reasons -- but instead of discussing the immediate geopolitical matter, he took his time at the rostrum to deliver a harsh message to the European grandees gathered there about the enemy “within.” And he wasn’t subtle in identifying that threat as the overreaction of Europeans to dissident populist parties:

Dozens of police teams across Germany raided homes before dawn in a coordinated crackdown on a recent Tuesday. The state police weren't looking for drugs or guns, they were looking for people suspected of posting hate speech online. 

A guest on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” attempted to claim on Sunday’s broadcast that despite reports of pre-dawn raids and the confiscation of electronics, German citizens really do enjoy free speech — until they say something that law enforcement interprets as “hate speech.”

Dr. Matthäus Fink sat down with host Sharyn Alfonsi to discuss the topic, and he explained how the recent raids had played out.

“What’s the typical reaction when the police show up at somebody’s door and they say, ‘Hey, we believe you wrote this on the internet’?” Alfonsi asked.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio clashed Sunday with CBS host Margaret Brennan over Vice President J.D. Vance’s Friday speech at the Munich Security Conference.