Overview

• Düsseldorf officers opened fire after a 40-year-old seen brandishing a weapon refused to disarm, leaving him seriously injured and hospitalized as investigators work to determine if the firearm was real; the neutral inquiry is led by the Duisburg police.
• Landgericht München I sentenced 22-year-old kickboxer Ihab L. to life in prison for murdering his drug dealer in Milbertshofen, rejecting his self‑defense claim and classifying the killing as a robbery murder.
• Herdecke’s newly elected mayor Iris Stalzer is out of acute danger after a stabbing; prosecutors name her 17-year-old adoptive daughter as the main suspect, do not seek an arrest warrant, and say two knives were secured at the scene.
• After a hammer attack at a Friedberg middle school, a 15-year-old is in pretrial detention on suspicion of attempted murder and serious assault as Bavaria’s extremism unit leads the probe; both 14-year-old victims have left the hospital.
• Police mount major operations elsewhere: a manhunt continues after an armed street robbery in Postbauer-Heng with helicopter and USK support, a 31-year-old is jailed in Essen on suspicion of attempted murder by arson of a sleeping homeless man, and an SEK arrested a 51-year-old tied to a September killing in Lüdenscheid.