Overview
- A 26-year-old was sentenced by the Tübingen regional court to six years and three months for kidnapping, extortion and abuse in a drug dispute, with a victim-compensation agreement reached.
- The Hamburg regional court re-sentenced a man to five years and three months for attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm after a 2024 knife attack in refugee housing.
- Both prosecution and defense appealed the Alzenau conviction of a police officer for obstruction of justice, sending the case to the Aschaffenburg regional court after a related ruling confirmed the predicate offense as dangerous bodily harm.
- Customs investigators cleared a large drug lab in Nauen, seizing about 400 kilograms of crystalline narcotics and tons of chemicals; two suspects, aged 41 and 50, are in custody as probes expand to possible backers.
- Five men were arrested in Berlin-Spandau and remanded in custody over a shipment containing roughly one tonne of marijuana hidden in coconuts following a controlled delivery monitored from the Port of Hamburg.