Overview

• Police report a violent clash of roughly 20 to 30 people on Sunday night in Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck involving knives, electroshock devices and baseball bats, leaving at least five severely injured.
• A 56-year-old man died in the hospital from stab wounds, while several others remain in life-threatening condition according to police and prosecutors.
• Officers arrested six people at the scene, secured the Pommernstraße crime area with a large deployment and helicopter support, and urged witnesses to contact investigators.
• Hours earlier, a separate stabbing in Gelsenkirchen’s Bahnhofscenter left a 40-year-old seriously injured, with a suspect detained as a special commission examines that case.
• In separate incidents across Germany, a 27-year-old trapeze artist died after a five-meter fall at a circus in Bautzen classified as a workplace accident with crisis support for spectators, while knife attacks in Erlangen, Altötting and Betzdorf led to arrests and ongoing inquiries.