Overview

• Police released composite sketches for two February and April sexual assaults on 16-year-olds in Brandenburg an der Havel and Teltow and are seeking public tips to identify the suspects.
• Investigators used facial-recognition software and human super recognizers to identify four male suspects, aged 18–21, in the May 30 attack on two 27-year-old transgender adults at Berlin’s Hermannplatz.
• Early-morning searches were conducted in four apartments across Berlin and Brandenburg in Adlershof, Altglienicke, Bohnsdorf and Eisenhüttenstadt.
• Officers seized three mobile phones and several items of clothing believed to have been worn during the transphobic assault, all of which are now under forensic examination.
• Probes into the two unresolved sexual assault cases remain open as police continue to solicit information via hotlines and online forms.