Overview

• French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation after around 100 masked assailants blocked a Limoges highway, attacked vehicles with fireworks and injured nine officers
• Düsseldorf police are probing a mass brawl between some 50 to 100 Syrians and Kurds at the main station that wounded four officers while experts analyze an accident at the Rheinkirmes fireworks display that left 19 people injured
• German traffic investigators are examining a fatal collision on the A2 near Hamm-Rynern that killed a 50-year-old motorist and a separate hit-and-run arrest in Dietramszell involving a heavily intoxicated driver
• In Berlin, prosecutors see no evidence of an organized gang war after a string of shootings and stabbings—including a fatal attack in Gesundbrunnen—and a Mordkommission continues its inquiries
• In Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces ordered mass evacuations in Deir al-Balah as UN agencies challenge the military’s account of fire on a World Food Programme convoy and investigate civilian casualty reports