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Gelsenkirchen Street Brawl Turns Deadly as Police Detain Six and Launch Homicide Probe

A homicide commission now leads the case as investigators work to establish the roles of those held after the 56-year-old victim died from stab wounds.

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Polizei und Rettungsdienst bei dem Einsatz in der Düsseldorfer Zentralbibliothek
Polizisten gehen in das Zirkuszelt des Circus Paul Busch auf dem Schützenplatz in Bautzen.
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Overview

  • Police report that 20 to 30 people were involved and that knives, electroshock devices and baseball bats were used in the confrontation.
  • Five people were seriously injured in total, three of them remain in life-threatening condition after the death of the 56-year-old.
  • Three men and three women aged 16 to 52 were provisionally detained at the scene while the cordoned area was processed for evidence.
  • Authorities are assessing possible motives, with security sources indicating no evidence of clan crime so far.
  • In related cases, police detained a 17-year-old after a bus-station stabbing in Erlangen, arrested a suspect in Austria over a life-threatening stabbing in Altötting, treated a Bautzen trapeze death as a workplace accident, and investigated a Klagenfurt petrol fire that injured six, two critically.