Overview

• Hessian Landeskriminalamt and Frankfurt prosecutors arrested four men and searched three homes in early July, targeting shock-call, “grandchild trick” and false-police scams that defrauded seniors of over €600,000.
• On July 9, investigators in Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Soest detained a 27-year-old Bosnian-Herzegovinian national suspected of using electronics fraud to fund an Islamist-motivated attack.
• In Bavaria and Cologne, weekend knife attacks left one woman severely injured in Augsburg and a 29-year-old man wounded in Opladen, prompting attempted manslaughter and aggravated assault probes.
• High-profile trials in Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart are advancing with psychiatric assessments of a suspected ICE train attacker, disputes over evidence in a Cologne warehouse hostage case and murder charges in a gang-related shooting.
• Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord police opened a murder inquiry after a couple was found dead in their apartment, with no signs of a third party and their baby placed in relatives’ care.