Overview

• Landgericht München II sentenced a 46-year-old Murnau truck driver to eight and a half years in prison and ordered €50,000 in compensation after convicting him of repeated rape and sexual abuse of two cousins aged seven and 13.
• Police in Kehl detained a 23-year-old suspect in connection with the death of an 84-year-old woman whose autopsy in Freiburg revealed blunt-force injuries, asphyxiation and indications of a sexual offense.
• Investigators recovered the body of a 13-year-old Czech boy on a railway line near Silbersee after a two-day search and are probing the circumstances under Kriminalpolizei oversight.
• A waterworks employee found the remains of an 18-year-old man in the Danube at Donauwörth, and authorities have planned an autopsy to determine his cause of death.
• The Bundesgerichtshof overturned or remanded several fatal-stabbing rulings, ordering new trials and sentence reviews after finding legal errors in lower-court decisions.