Overview
- A mother in Dinkelsbühl found a two-centimeter nail inside her 12-year-old’s chocolate egg, prompting a police investigation into possible tampering or a production fault.
- Authorities reported no injuries from the candy incident, informed parents of accompanying children, and said no additional contaminated sweets have been identified.
- In Duisburg, a 14-year-old suffered a catastrophic hand injury when a pyrotechnic device exploded, with police treating the case as a criminal matter and hospitalizing the youth.
- Duisburg police tallied 163 Halloween-related deployments, checked roughly 280 people, issued 76 dispersal orders, and seized suspected illegal fireworks during planned operations with video monitoring.
- Düsseldorf recorded 102 deployments with an ‘unusually aggressive’ mood in the Altstadt, including 22 criminal complaints and 10 people held in custody, while police in Baden-Württemberg logged heavy call volumes such as about 200 incidents in Freiburg and around 40 in Stuttgart.