Overview

• A court issued a detention order for a 20-year-old Syrian asylum seeker accused of attacking four passengers with a hammer and axe on an ICE train, and both the suspect and three victims remain hospitalized.
• A Hemmingen-Arnum resident, 31, remains in pretrial custody on suspicion of fatally stabbing a neighbor in a multi-family dwelling stairwell.
• Four former Berlin-Alexanderplatz police officers began facing charges of assaulting and fabricating allegations against a man who reported a theft in July 2021.
• Prosecutors in Stuttgart are examining video evidence of a police officer’s fatal shooting of a suspect to determine whether the use of lethal force was lawful.
• Courts in Kassel-Niederzwehren, Recklinghausen and Berlin handled separate cases: a 46-year-old husband charged with killing his 41-year-old wife, a 21-year-old defendant accused of stabbing a 71-year-old retiree during an alleged burglary, and a man sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2024 Friedrichsfelde femicide.