Overview

• Hanau prosecutors continue high-priority investigations into the June 22 groping of eight girls at the Barbarossabad pool with warrantless suspect interviews still under way.
• Four Syrian men aged 18 to 28 remain free after initial detentions because courts found no grounds for pretrial custody.
• Mayor Christian Litzinger convened the Kommission zur Förderung der Sicherheit Gelnhausens on July 21 to shape broader urban safety measures.
• The commission brings together city administrators, state police and security experts to advise on staffing, surveillance and urban planning enhancements.
• Local authorities had immediately deployed police and external guards at the pool in late June to boost on-site security.