Overview

• A Wuppertal court sentenced the 40-year-old Solingen arsonist to life imprisonment with subsequent security detention for the fourfold fire murder.
• Police suspect sabotage in a cable tunnel that shut down the Duisburg–Düsseldorf rail line and say cable replacement work will keep the crucial route closed until at least Friday.
• Hamburg’s new interagency network for risk management in cases involving mentally ill individuals began operations on August 1 to improve information sharing and prevent violent offenses.
• Emergency responders deployed around 160 personnel to clear and reopen the B22 near Speichersdorf after two heavy trucks collided head-on, leaving both drivers with serious injuries.
• Broadcast appeals on ZDF’s ‘Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst’ generated initial tips in a fatal A3 hit-and-run and in a Würzburg jeweler robbery, and police remanded three suspects in a knife-point backpack theft in Kitzingen.