Overview

• The confrontation followed an earlier dispute and occurred around 17:00 on Sunday in the bus station area of Erlangen.
• A 17-year-old allegedly threatened the 15-year-old with a knife and inflicted multiple upper-body wounds during a struggle.
• Witnesses intervened, prompting the attacker to flee, and the injured youth was treated at a hospital.
• Police launched a citywide search using response units, plainclothes teams, and a police dog before plainclothes officers detained the suspect later that evening.
• The victim’s 46-year-old father, reportedly about 2‰ intoxicated, was taken into custody after resisting officers and slightly injuring two of them, and prosecutors ordered a blood test; police ask witnesses to call 09131 9600.