Overview

• Wuppertal regional court imposed life imprisonment with preventive detention on a 40-year-old for fourfold arson-murder in Solingen.
• The Hamburger Netzwerk für personenbezogenes Risikomanagement goes live August 1 to centralize threat assessments alongside interventions for individuals with serious mental-health concerns.
• Police in Gelsenkirchen held two Dutch nationals in custody over a jeweller robbery that involved firearms alongside a machete.
• Three suspects aged 17 to 20 have been arrested and ordered held in Nürnberg for an armed carjacking that left a 69-year-old driver shot and robbed of hashish.
• Investigators continue to pursue unsolved assaults—from the Holzkirchen petrol station robbery to the fatal A3 hit-and-run—through public appeals on ZDF’s “Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst.”