Overview
- Deutsche Bahn is holding a security summit in Berlin after conductor Serkan Çalar’s killing, with unions and police urging double staffing on local trains, bodycams on long-distance routes, and more onboard patrols.
- Cologne’s state protection unit is investigating two assaults on a 27-year-old amateur referee after a viral stadium proposal, examining a possible homophobic motive following threats and the online posting of his address.
- At the Munich Security Conference, Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for stronger European defense and disclosed confidential talks with France on nuclear deterrence, then met U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.
- A U.S. Senate hearing reviewed a large ICE operation in Minneapolis in which Alex Pretti was killed, with Chairman Rand Paul showing video and questioning whether the tactics used were deescalatory or justified.
- A sport court confirmed the exclusion of Ukrainian skeleton pilot Wladyslaw Heraskewytsch from the Winter Games over his helmet, rejecting his appeal.