The German government said on Wednesday it wanted to set up a blacklist of violent computer games, giving it the power to ban them from distribution in the wake of the country's worst postwar massacre.
German Family Minister Christine Bergmann said the government was proposing the blacklist in response to last month's killing of 16 people at a school in the town of Erfurt by a 19-year-old former student who later shot himself.
The government also proposed classifying and labeling computer games according to age, as with film videos.
The Erfurt killing spree stunned the nation and pushed the issue of teenage violence high on the political agenda ahead of general elections in September. The conservative opposition has already called for a ban on the distribution of violent films, video and text. --Reuters
