Overview

• A 49-year-old man was arrested in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg after verbally harassing passersby and attempting to stab a man with a pen; no injuries were reported.
• The suspect in Prenzlauer Berg also allegedly threatened a teenage girl, who fled and locked herself in a building, prompting the man to strike the door repeatedly.
• Meanwhile, a 31-year-old man in Neukölln was attacked twice in separate incidents within four days, both involving groups of assailants and knife injuries.
• In the first attack on March 11, the victim was pulled from his car, beaten, and stabbed in the back by multiple men; in the second attack on March 14, six individuals used pepper spray before stabbing him in the thigh.
• Police are investigating potential connections between the two Neukölln attacks and whether they may involve organized crime, with no suspects identified yet.