Overview

• A 36-year-old jogger says she was racially insulted, spat upon, and saw her dog threatened by a passing cyclist on Monday evening.
• The incident occurred around 19:00 east of a lake in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district, according to the victim’s police report.
• Investigators describe the suspect as a 60–65-year-old gray-haired man speaking a Franconian dialect, wearing shorts and a blue jacket, and riding a reddish-brown bicycle with a blue box on its rack.
• Kriminalpolizei Erlangen has launched a formal probe and is urging anyone who witnessed the encounter to call hotline 091121123333.
• Police stress that limited physical evidence makes community tips vital to identifying and locating the cyclist.