Overview

• Essen police say a quarrel between two women at the main station around 17:40 escalated into a stabbing that left the victim in life-threatening condition and required emergency surgery.
• The alleged attacker in Essen injured herself with the knife after the assault, both women were taken to hospitals, and officers have not established a motive or verified rumored links to drugs or homelessness.
• In Hamburg, a 42-year-old woman and her 41-year-old husband from Landkreis Stade were beaten on S‑Bahn line S3 between Diebsteich and Altona on Saturday night, leaving the woman hospitalized with facial injuries as her husband declined on-scene treatment.
• Federal police located two male suspects, aged 30 and 31, at Altona’s bus terminal shortly after the Hamburg attack, recorded breath alcohol levels of 1.57‰ and 1.34‰, and opened proceedings on suspicion of (dangerous) bodily harm while reviewing surveillance footage.
• Investigators secured the Essen crime scene for forensic work without disrupting rail service, and in Hamburg the suspects were issued a temporary area ban for Altona and St. Pauli, according to local reports.