Overview

• In Berlin, 84-year-old Peter R. went on trial charged with driving at almost 90 km/h in a 30 km/h zone on Leipziger Straße, striking and killing a 41-year-old mother and her four-year-old son in March 2024.
• Police in Berlin are also probing a suspected arson attack that ignited about 35 commercial vans in Britz and Lichtenberg, with a link to a telecommunications company and a major delivery firm.
• In Frankfurt, a 19-year-old surrendered after federal police released his photo in connection with a June shooting at the Galluswarte S-Bahn station that left a 29-year-old man seriously injured by a blank-cartridge pistol.
• Hamburg’s regional court sentenced two men, aged 26 and 23, to five-and-a-half and four years in prison respectively for their involvement in a mass brawl at Jungfernstieg that saw multiple stab wounds.
• Authorities in Künzelsau detained a 28-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping and brutally abusing his ex-girlfriend, who escaped after days of captivity and led police to the suspect’s hiding place.