Overview
- Investigators say numerous large stones and plates were thrown from a railway overpass onto the Frankenschnellweg on October 31, striking a Mercedes windshield without penetrating it and damaging additional vehicles.
- Prosecutors classified the October 31 attack as attempted murder, while a similar October 24 incident at the same location was labeled attempted grievous bodily harm and dangerous interference with traffic.
- The Nürnberger Kriminalpolizei combined both cases and took over the probe through Kommissariat 11 after the earlier case had initially been handled by the Bundespolizei.
- A visit to a southern Nuremberg school led three fifth-grade students to confess and identify a fourth boy, enabling police to determine who participated on each date.
- Police report that three children were involved on October 24 and two on October 31, with one 10-year-old present both days, and note that civil damage claims remain possible despite the lack of criminal prosecution.