Overview
- As protests continue in Iran, reports cite several thousand killed and detained, the German Foreign Office urges citizens to leave due to the risk of arbitrary arrests, and Iran scholar Walter Posch says the state remains fully operational.
- U.S. deliberations over possible action are portrayed as unsettled, with cautionary voices reported despite President Trump’s combative messages urging Iranian protesters to continue.
- In North Rhine-Westphalia, about 230 investigators are processing roughly 10,000 hours of video data and an estimated 500,000 items after the Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen vault burglary, with the perpetrators still at large.
- Police report the Gelsenkirchen thieves likely entered via a manipulated escape door and drilled a 40‑centimeter hole into the vault, forcing nearly all 3,256 boxes, with losses estimated from tens to possibly hundreds of millions of euros.
- The Bundeswehr’s Fallschirmjägerregiment 26 faces about 55 suspects over right‑wing extremism, sexual misconduct and drug use, with 18 disciplinary sanctions, 16 referrals to prosecutors, and 9 dismissals executed plus 4 initiated, while leaders say this does not mirror the earlier KSK crisis.