Overview

• Police arrested a 20-year-old in Passau on suspicion of raping a 25-year-old in Munich in early August; a judge issued a warrant and he is in custody.
• After arriving from Turkey, a 34-year-old suspect in a June shooting in Viersen was detained at Düsseldorf Airport and placed in pretrial detention, police in Mönchengladbach said.
• Berlin investigators released bus CCTV images seeking a man suspected of raping and robbing a person in Wedding on October 23, 2024, and appealed for public tips.
• Special branch investigators took over a case in Sulzbach-Rosenberg after two Russian-speaking men allegedly attacked a 19-year-old Bundeswehr soldier who suffered minor injuries.
• Courts delivered major rulings: Munich’s regional court sentenced a bank employee to three and a half years and ordered about €390,000 seized; Bremen’s court imposed life for a cemetery murder (not yet final); the Mannheim police-murder life sentence against Sulaiman A. is now final.