Overview
- A frontal crash in Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen left two women (20 and 25) and two about 1.5-year-old children dead after their car collided head-on with a lorry, and police have ordered a forensic expert to reconstruct the crash.
- In Gelsenkirchen a 47-year-old man has been arrested and a detention order issued on suspicion of attempted homicide after investigators say he accelerated off the road and ran down a pedestrian.
- Prosecutors in Paderborn plan to seek a detention order for a 55-year-old suspect who allegedly harassed young women and later stabbed a 39-year-old man now out of life-threatening danger.
- A two-year-old boy from Berlin remains missing after being collected from his mother’s home by a known acquaintance on May 28, and the Landeskriminalamt continues urgent public appeals for tips and sightings.
- Police and the Bundespolizei are also probing separate rail assaults in Munich, a music box thrown through a windshield on the A2 near Barleben, and a fatal scooter-vehicle collision in Cologne-Mülheim as investigators seek witnesses and clarify causes.