Overview
- State and city officials plan to meet in Cottbus on Friday to finalize a coordinated package, after the date was shifted for a special Landtag session.
- The police Ermittlungsgruppe Schule has opened 178 investigations since late June for offenses ranging from bodily injury to threats and coercion.
- Twenty-five cases tied to primary schools are under review, with 18 already transferred to the Cottbus public prosecutor.
- Officers have delivered threat-assessment talks at family homes, sometimes the same evening with interpreters, which authorities say show an “enormous” effect.
- The city is deploying or weighing school security services and tougher steps for persistently violent children, while the minister notes Cottbus is not top in statewide crime totals.