Overview

• Landgericht Göttingen acquitted a 41-year-old of car vandalism and arson attempts due to paranoid schizophrenia and ordered his indefinite placement in a psychiatric hospital, with the ruling open to appeal.
• After officers shot a 40-year-old in central Düsseldorf, investigators confirmed he held a blank-firing pistol and are reconstructing events through video analysis and drone imagery while withholding his current condition.
• Prosecutors are probing 17 Frankfurt officers over alleged assaults during or after arrests and suspected cover-ups, with the LKA taking over, service bans announced for several, and the 1st precinct’s leadership to be replaced.
• In the Dramfeld homicide trial, police testified they recovered three blood-stained knives from the victim’s home, as prosecutors seek the accused 23-year-old woman’s commitment to a psychiatric facility.
• Newly disclosed details in the Herdecke stabbing indicate the 17-year-old adoptive daughter allegedly tormented the incoming mayor before the attack; the politician is now out of life-threatening danger and the teen is detained.