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Germany Opens New Homicide Probes After Maintal Death and Lemgo Supermarket Killing

Prosecutors advance parallel cases, with an arrest in Lemgo, active manhunts elsewhere and a review of police gunfire in Bavaria.

Overview

  • In Maintal (Hesse) a 19-year-old found with apparent stab wounds on October 12 has died, and Hanau prosecutors now treat the case as a homicide with an autopsy ordered this week and two unidentified men sought.
  • In Lemgo (NRW) a juvenile was fatally stabbed during a dispute in a supermarket, a 33-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene, and Detmold prosecutors opened a murder investigation with Bielefeld’s homicide unit.
  • In Landshut (Bavaria) police shot and seriously wounded a 30-year-old who attacked officers with a knife, triggering attempted‑homicide inquiries by prosecutors and a standard review of the firearm use, while three officers reported injuries.
  • Police in Saxony-Anhalt report two armed petrol‑station robberies on consecutive nights and a separate Dessau‑Roßlau textile‑shop holdup where a shot was fired into the ceiling, and they issued detailed suspect descriptions with hotlines for tips.
  • MDR reports recent racist assaults in Saxony, including threats against a Venezuelan couple in Hoyerswerda and a Dresden case in which an 81-year-old allegedly tore off a 14-year-old’s headscarf and now faces charges of incitement and bodily harm, while Berlin police probe two men shot in Schöneberg after detaining two others.