Overview
- Police in Stuttgart are investigating whether K.O.-substances were involved after at least ten partygoers collapsed during a large Halloween event at Kulturhaus Arena, with several treated in hospitals and toxicology pending.
- In Vienna-Hietzing two masked men used a Halloween approach to force their way into an elderly couple’s home, tied the victims and fled with cash, jewelry and phones valued in the low five figures as detectives seek the suspects.
- In Duisburg a pyrotechnic device severely injured a 14-year-old boy’s hand, and police logged 163 Halloween-related operations including controls, confiscations and multiple public-order incidents.
- Düsseldorf reported 102 police deployments and 22 criminal complaints in an unusually aggressive nightlife atmosphere, with checks and detentions recorded in the early hours.
- Police in Dinkelsbühl opened an inquiry after a mother found a two-centimeter nail inside her 12-year-old’s Halloween chocolate, assessing intentional tampering versus a production error.