Overview
- Authorities confirmed new proceedings for bodily harm in office against unidentified officers and a separate case for possible obstruction of justice against an unidentified prosecutor.
- The investigations in the newly reported matter have been underway since November 26, and prosecutors have urged the anonymous witness to come forward.
- The latest steps were prompted by a Hessischer Rundfunk report citing a legal trainee who described verbal and physical abuse during a summer 2024 night shift at the Zeil precinct.
- Her account includes claims that a handcuffed detainee’s head was slammed against a car window, that abrupt braking threw him around the vehicle, and that tape was later placed over his mouth at the station.
- An earlier October probe continues into five female and twelve male officers, aged 24 to 56, over alleged unlawful harm to six men between February and April 2025, including blows, kicks, head thrusts against walls and doors, and one alleged push down stairs.