Overview

• Poseck said the four Syrian men detained over the June 22 Gelnhausen pool harassment were released due to lack of pre-trial detention grounds.
• One suspect faces a separate April charge for alleged threats and dangerous bodily harm while the other three have records limited to immigration-law violations.
• A fifth alleged attacker in the Gelnhausen incident remains unidentified as investigators continue their search.
• The interior minister disclosed two new pool harassment allegations involving a heavily intoxicated Romanian man in Babenhausen and a German man secretly photographing a visitor in Darmstadt.
• Official figures show sexual offences in Hessian public pools fell from 81 cases in 2019 to 74 in 2024.