Overview

• At an Essen vocational college, a teacher was stabbed and treated with no indication of life‑threatening injuries as police later shot and arrested a 17‑year‑old suspect identified as a Kosovar near the main station.
• Essens mayor Thomas Kufen proposed tighter checks of student bags and deployed a security service to the campus starting Monday, though the city says staff cannot search backpacks.
• In Ulm, officers fired several shots that missed a knife‑wielding man who advanced on them before subduing him and transporting him to a psychiatric hospital, with road and transit closures during the investigation.
• In Eisenberg, police detained a 55‑year‑old with about 2.0‰ alcohol who ran with a machete and threatened passersby, with investigators citing similar previous incidents and opening a case for making threats.
• In Crimmitschau, a wanted 40‑year‑old sprayed animal repellent at officers and injured a 29‑year‑old before being arrested and taken to JVA Zwickau, while in Völklingen the 18‑year‑old suspect in a recent police killing was moved from hospital to prison custody and a separate blank‑firing case saw a 20‑year‑old turn himself in without injuries reported.