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Germany Reports Series of Knife Attacks and Serious Crashes as Police Launch Probes

Police have opened parallel investigations into stabbings, weapons reports, serious crashes.

Overview

  • Essen: A suspected student was located by SEK and shot after a reported knife attack on a teacher at a vocational college, with the suspect critically injured as investigations continue.
  • Grevenbroich: Police classify a street stabbing as attempted murder; two suspects aged 25 and 32 were detained, three men were injured and the formerly life‑threatened 25‑year‑old’s condition stabilized.
  • Ulm: Officers fired but did not hit a knife‑wielding man who threatened them; he was overpowered and transferred under guard to a psychiatric hospital.
  • BerlinWedding: After a car hit a holiday group, police reported seven injured and found roughly 90 grams of packaged marijuana with the 20‑year‑old driver; a blood test is pending and his license was seized.
  • Separate road collisions left multiple people severely hurt, including a life‑threatening motorcycle‑tractor crash near Birkenau and a critical Ainring car crash under expert review, as other cases from Stuhr to Neustadt prompt forensic and prosecutorial follow‑ups.