Overview

• Authorities have arrested suspects in four recent homicides—Munich-Obermenzing, Nidderau, Großweitzschen and Eschwege.
• Essen police have published photos of a 57-year-old suspect accused of firing at a 37-year-old’s apartment window and launched a manhunt for the fugitive.
• A 35-year-old Algerian defendant appeared in Aachen on charges of attempted murder in ten cases linked to a November fire at a Schleiden refugee shelter.
• In Hamburg, a court sentenced a man to seven years in prison for causing his ex-partner’s fatal fall from a fourth-floor balcony during a domestic dispute.
• Four suspects, including two minors, remain in custody in Thuringia over the torture and drowning of a 23-year-old in Zella-Mehlis earlier this month.