Overview

• A 17-year-old Dormagen resident has been arrested as the prime suspect in his 37-year-old mother’s killing, prompting a homicide commission under the Düsseldorf police to lead the investigation.
• Suspects have been detained in Saale-Holzland-Kreis for defrauding an 81-year-old Hermsdorf woman of €54,000 through a sham accident bail scheme, with police issuing fresh warnings about senior-targeted scams.
• Police in Viersen renewed their appeal for information and released a phantombild in the unresolved 2023 attempted rape of a 31-year-old cyclist in a Nettetal cornfield.
• Traffic authorities are investigating multiple serious crashes—ranging from a six-car pileup on the A9 and a senior rollover on the A7 to a fatal collision near Raguhn-Jeßnitz and a suspected street-racing wreck in Essen—with drivers facing impairment or reckless driving charges.
• Authorities remain in pursuit of the perpetrators in a Hamburg-Bramfeld shooting that left a man severely injured and has yielded no arrests to date.