Overview

• Prosecutors in Stuttgart filed charges including murder and attempted murder against two brothers, 32 and 35, and their 25-year-old cousin over a March street race in Ludwigsburg that killed two women aged 22 and 23, with both alleged drivers in pretrial detention.
• A Frankfurt court sentenced a former federal police officer to life imprisonment for the treacherous murder of his 23-year-old girlfriend in Weilrod, rejecting his claim of an accidental shooting; the verdict is not yet final.
• After a house fire in Pinneberg, emergency teams recovered a body from the ruins, with identification and cause of death pending, as the injured parents and a sibling receive care and structural risks complicate the investigation.
• On the B2 near Monheim, five people were injured and a 30-year-old was airlifted in life-threatening condition as police opened a criminal probe and ordered an accident analysis, while a separate B2 crash at Kaisheim killed two women after an expert found a truck’s left front tyre burst sent it into oncoming traffic.
• Essen police formed a homicide unit after a 41-year-old was stabbed at the main station, with a 36-year-old suspect jailed on an attempted manslaughter warrant, and in Munich a 49-year-old was ordered into custody on a rape charge following a reported assault in an Oktoberfest tent.