Overview
- After a televised ARD town hall, Chancellor Friedrich Merz acknowledged he should have clarified his earlier 'Stadtbild' comments sooner, while still pointing to neglected cities and stressing Germany’s reliance on foreign workers.
- Berlin prosecutors and police said eight suspects aged 16 to 22 were identified in the September 12 fatal stabbing at the Humboldt Forum, with arrest warrants executed and seven presented to a Tiergarten judge.
- Residents of the leftist Zelle 79 house project in Cottbus reported their mailbox was blown up, which local activists linked to a series of right‑wing attacks on alternative venues in the region.
- Authorities in Unterfranken said a Somali man lauded for pursuing a knife attacker in Aschaffenburg must leave Germany, citing an earlier asylum rejection, failure to take up approved work, and multiple convictions.
- Police in Lünen responded to a street shooting with a major deployment, with the incident disrupting traffic as inquiries continued.