Overview

• The Ansbach public prosecutor has charged a 26-year-old suspect with attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm in a February stabbing in Heilsbronn that is being treated as a contract killing.
• Investigators say the victim—a 40-year-old textile-industry professional—was unknown to the accused and believe leads trace the motive to Turkey.
• The main suspect and an accomplice fled via France to the UK, where the 26-year-old was arrested in March, and prosecutors plan to ask French and Turkish authorities to take over the remaining inquiries.
• In Stuttgart the state-security trial of Sulaiman A. for a May 2024 jihadist-inspired knife attack in Mannheim is completing its evidence hearings before opening statements in August.
• The court has provisionally scheduled a verdict for 15 September, and the attacker’s wife is slated to testify under police protection after receiving threats.