Overview
- A Berlin court sentenced a 45-year-old man to life in prison for murdering his estranged wife, finding “low motives” and noting he watched their children try to save her; release is legally possible only after at least 15 years.
- In Höchstadt an der Aisch, a 44-year-old suspected of killing his 69-year-old mother was ordered into a psychiatric hospital after an investigative judge cited doubts about his criminal responsibility.
- Essen police opened an investigation into an assault on a then 80-year-old man on November 3 who died weeks later, are treating the case as bodily harm resulting in death, and are appealing for witnesses.
- Hamburg authorities detained a suspected attacker after a Wilhelmsburg stabbing that left a 24-year-old critically injured, with an attempted homicide probe underway and a witness reporting use of ChatGPT to translate the victim’s plea before calling emergency services.
- In Dresden, a non-public Sicherungsverfahren began against a now 17-year-old accused in the fatal stabbing of a 21-year-old found in a forest, with the youth held in a psychiatric facility due to possible lack of culpability.