Overview
- Police detained a 28-year-old man in Nuremberg about an hour after a Veitsbronn petrol-station robbery, stopping a white car that matched witness reports and seizing evidentiary items.
- A coordinated search directed by the operations center involved multiple units and a helicopter, and specialist detectives have taken over the case.
- Authorities are examining whether the detainee is also tied to a Fürth robbery the previous day, when a man threatened staff, demanded cash, and fled in a white SUV possibly an Opel Crossland.
- Police said the robber was armed during the incidents but did not use a firearm, and they withheld tactical details about the weapon.
- Separately, regional services handled multiple incidents, including two tram collisions in Augsburg and Nuremberg that left eight injured, and the death of a German assault victim on Mallorca as two juveniles remain in custody facing murder charges.