Overview

• A 36-year-old German suspect was detained on June 24 under an existing warrant for the June 13 Zittau robbery.
• Authorities had earlier arrested a 35-year-old Lebanese man on the night of the June 13 incident, and both remain in pretrial detention.
• The operation involved the Polizeidirektion Görlitz, Landeskriminalamt, Bereitschaftspolizei and customs officers, who searched several sites including a local garage compound.
• Bank surveillance footage from May 31 enabled detectives to identify and secure the imprisonment of a 17-year-old tied to an earlier robbery that yielded €890 from a 19-year-old victim.
• Local prosecutors and criminal police continue investigating connections between the May 31 and June 13 violent robberies.