Overview

• Police reported a street fight involving 20 to 30 people in Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck where knives, an electroshock device and baseball bats were used, leaving at least five seriously injured and four in life-threatening condition.
• Officers sealed the scene, deployed a helicopter and took six suspects aged 16 to 52 into custody as forensics teams worked the Pommernstraße crime scene.
• In Erlangen, a 17-year-old was detained after allegedly stabbing a 15-year-old multiple times near the bus station; the victim was hospitalized and the boy’s intoxicated father injured two officers while resisting police.
• Near Wuppertal, a wrong-way driver died in a head-on collision on the L74 and three occupants of the other vehicle were seriously hurt, prompting a roughly five-and-a-half-hour closure for the investigation.
• In Hilpoltstein, a VW crossed into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with an Audi, killing a 56-year-old man and lightly injuring five others as police called for witnesses to clarify the cause.