Overview
- A homicide squad from Essen under the Bochum prosecutor is investigating the use of force, with ballistic and criminal-technical analyses pending; both the girl and her mother are deaf, the mother was handcuffed before entry, and no interpreter was present.
- Police say the 12-year-old emerged with two kitchen knives and moved toward officers before shots were fired, while investigators review unresolved details such as distances and shot assessment.
- Deaf representatives call for a 24/7 emergency interpreter pool, baseline sign-language training and clear protocols; the police union highlights the high lethality risk of knives and notes stricter legal limits on firearms against under-14s except to avert imminent danger.
- In Seeshaupt, a 23-year-old forestry worker died after being struck by a falling tree, prompting probes by Kripo Weilheim and the statutory accident insurer, with a nearby rail line briefly closed.
- On the B51 near Trier, police say an oncoming-lane incursion by a car led to a fatal head-on with a lorry that killed four, including a child and the truck driver, as teams also search for a dog believed to have been in the car; in Dorsten, a school bus crash led to hospitalizations for three adults while 22 children were examined and found uninjured.