Overview
- Police in Hamburg arrested three more suspects over a near‑fatal 2024 petrol‑station stabbing in Billstedt, seized a live firearm during raids in Lüneburg and Dortmund, and now have four men in custody after the case was reclassified as attempted murder.
- Prosecutors in Offenburg filed charges against a man accused of breaking into a Kehl home, sexually assaulting, robbing and suffocating an 84‑year‑old, with the indictment citing murder, robbery and rape with fatal outcome and the suspect provisionally housed in a psychiatric hospital.
- In Bavaria, a 66‑year‑old remains in critical condition after a Rosenheim shelter attack as a 32‑year‑old was arrested and jailed on suspicion of attempted homicide, while in Waldsassen a 67‑year‑old reported himself after a 64‑year‑old was fatally shot and was taken into custody pending a judge’s decision.
- Separate investigations continue after a 50‑year‑old woman was killed in Burgkirchen with her 47‑year‑old ex‑partner arrested by special forces, and in Fürstenfeldbruck a 70‑year‑old was jailed after allegedly telling a doctor he suffocated his 95‑year‑old mother, with an autopsy pointing to a non‑natural death.
- Potsdam prosecutors opened a probe into an alleged child sexual assault inside the Brandenburg/Havel forensic psychiatric facility after health authorities were notified in early November, inspections were carried out and a criminal complaint was filed, with key details still under investigation.