Overview

• Herdecke police say Iris Stalzer is out of immediate danger and has identified her 17-year-old daughter as the suspect; two knives were seized and both adoptive children are to be released to youth services with no detention sought.
• Prosecutors classify the Herdecke case as dangerous bodily injury rather than an attempted killing, with forensic work indicating the attack occurred in the home’s cellar after an initial false report of an outside robbery.
• In Paderborn, a 25-year-old local student was arrested near the Padersee after a knife attack in a school sports hall left a female student in life-threatening condition; the weapon was recovered and SEK teams searched the campus.
• Authorities in Mainaschaff lifted a warning after measurements found the air safe following nitrous gases released by a reaction in a nitric acid tank, with four people reporting minor injuries and a large multi-agency response.
• Elsewhere, witnesses helped detain a 22-year-old after a garage arson in Markkleeberg before his release following identification checks, and Gelsenkirchen police arrested two suspected drug dealers and seized narcotics and weapons.