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Germany Confronts Spate of Violence and Thefts as Court in Rome Halts Nord Stream Extradition

Police intensify searches, evidence processing, firearms seizures across Berlin, Leipzig, Hof and Hesse.

Overview

  • Italy’s Cassation Court overturned a lower ruling and stopped the extradition to Germany of a 49-year-old Ukrainian suspected in the Nord Stream pipeline attacks, according to his lawyer and Italian media.
  • Berlin police reported two people injured after an afternoon shooting in Kreuzberg, later locating a car in Neukölln with two occupants carrying firearms, with the sequence of events still under investigation.
  • Federal police in Leipzig detained suspects after multiple late-night altercations at the main station, opening cases that include dangerous assault, resisting arrest and attacks on officers.
  • In Hof, a young male suspect allegedly grabbed cash from a service station till and fled; officers are searching with a helicopter and police dogs and released a detailed description.
  • Police in northern Hesse are probing two near-simultaneous attempts to break into articulated lorries at motorway service areas in Malsfeld and Knüllwald, with the intruders fleeing and investigators seeking witnesses.