Overview
- Multiple attendees at a Stuttgart Halloween party collapsed and were taken to hospitals, with police investigating suspected K.-o.-drops and toxicology results pending.
- At Cologne’s main station, rival Borussia Dortmund and Schalke groups confronted each other after a train’s emergency brake was pulled, with police using pepper spray and batons and opening criminal investigations.
- Frankfurt’s Nordwestzentrum was evacuated after loud bangs, then declared safe when firework remnants were found, with up to eight people reporting minor injuries during the rush to exit.
- A 14-year-old in Duisburg suffered a severe hand injury from an exploding pyrotechnic device, and police opened an inquiry into the circumstances.
- Police in the southwest logged hundreds of Halloween-related deployments, including roughly 200 in Freiburg’s area and about 40 nuisance calls in Stuttgart involving eggs and fireworks.