Overview
- Investigators returned to the Senftenberger Straße apartment on Wednesday to secure forensic traces after a young woman fell from a first‑floor balcony and suffered a traumatic brain injury, and the state LKA has now taken over the suspected sexual‑offence case.
- Witnesses told reporters that five men carried the injured woman back into the flat after the fall, and police are assessing whether evidence was removed before specialists arrived.
- In Charlottenburg late Wednesday, police opened a case on a suspected illegal street race after a car knocked down bollards and hit a tree near the Landwehrkanal, and both the 21‑year‑old Mercedes driver and a 23‑year‑old Audi driver were briefly detained with alcohol and drug tests reported as negative.
- Police executed 17 search warrants on Tuesday morning in Spandau and Neukölln, seizing narcotics, prescription medicines, cash, a cannabis grow and phones, and two alleged ringleaders aged 24 and 25 were placed in pre‑trial detention.
- Authorities note illegal racing is a persistent safety problem in Berlin with roughly 900 investigations last year, which frames the Charlottenburg case and the week’s wider enforcement push.