Overview

• Investigators created a special working group that identified a dozen suspects, with an investigating judge issuing warrants and five suspects now jailed.
• Since early June, police have recorded 29 incidents citywide, with most reports concentrated around the area south of Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof.
• Offenders typically engage victims under a pretext before using tactics such as “antanzen,” snatching, kicking, striking, or reaching from a car.
• Cases are classified as trick theft or robbery based on the level of force used in each incident.
• Suspects are largely young men aged 16 to 31 who act alone or in small groups without forming a single organized ring, and police urge additional victims to report incidents.