Overview
- Special units detained a 41-year-old Croatian and a 44-year-old German in coordinated early-morning operations in Dinslaken-Eppinghoven and Frechen-Königsdorf.
- Prosecutors say the two men are suspected of involvement in the January 28, 2022 ambush that left the then 47-year-old victim with multiple gunshot wounds.
- Police executed search warrants at the suspects’ residences and secured potential evidence, including mobile phones, which remain under evaluation.
- Authorities describe the arrests as the product of meticulous, years-long work by Duisburg homicide detectives under prosecutorial direction.
- Investigators are assessing possible links to the outlaw biker scene, including a press-reported past Hells Angels tie for one suspect that is unproven, while noting the victim was later acquitted in a separate 2022 fatal shooting.