Overview

• Investigators say two Russian‑speaking men attacked a uniformed 19‑year‑old Bundeswehr soldier in Sulzbach‑Rosenberg, suspecting a link to Russia’s war in Ukraine; the soldier suffered minor injuries and witnesses are sought.
• Police released detailed descriptions of the two suspects in the soldier assault, and the Staatsschutz unit of Kripo Amberg is handling the case.
• A 20‑year‑old living in a Passau shelter was arrested and placed in pretrial detention on suspicion of raping a 25‑year‑old found disoriented and partly undressed in a Munich Hinterhof; forensic work and inquiries continue.
• Months after a June shooting in Viersen, a 34‑year‑old suspect was detained at Düsseldorf Airport after arriving from Turkey and is now in custody, according to police in Mönchengladbach.
• In Lower Saxony, a 34‑year‑old is in custody on suspicion of manslaughter and arson in Gyhum, and in Bremen a 29‑year‑old received a life sentence for a 2024 cemetery murder, a verdict that is not yet final.