Overview

• Police say about 20 to 30 people fought with knives, electroshock devices and baseball bats in Gelsenkirchen, where a 56-year-old died from stab wounds and three others remain in critical condition.
• Six suspects were provisionally detained at the scene and AFP reported seven people were to be questioned on Monday as officers sealed Pommernstraße for forensics, deployed a helicopter and appealed for witnesses.
• Authorities indicated the clash was the peak of an intra‑family conflict, with security sources citing private motives and no evidence of clan crime as a homicide commission investigates.
• In Erlangen a 17-year-old was detained after a 15-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds near the bus station, and the injured teen’s intoxicated father was taken into custody on suspicion of resisting police.
• In Altötting a 22-year-old found with life‑threatening stab wounds is now stable, a suspect was arrested near Braunau in Austria and extradition to Germany is being arranged, while a separate Westerwald family knife attack suspect remains in custody for attempted manslaughter.