Overview

• Prosecutors and the Hesse state criminal police opened criminal investigations into suspected bodily harm in office, obstruction of justice, and persecuting the innocent.
• Search teams hit four police stations and 21 homes, seizing mobile phones and data carriers for forensic analysis with about 150 LKA and prosecutorial personnel involved.
• Five policewomen and 12 policemen aged 24 to 56 are accused of harming six men during or after arrests between February and late April 2025 or tolerating such acts and failing to report them.
• Investigators say several officers then pursued cases against five of the detainees for alleged resistance or attacks on police, apparently to justify the force used.
• Authorities cite multiple case complexes, including 22 suspected assaults, 11 suspected obstruction counts, and 14 suspected cases of pursuing innocents, with no indication of an extremist motive so far.