Overview

• A 59-year-old German-Polish man was arraigned June 5 in Bochum over the March 1996 stabbing of a nightclub patron in Wattenscheid after his extradition from the UK in January.
• Oldenburg prosecutors have finished reviewing radio logs, body-camera footage and video recordings and are awaiting a 3D scene reconstruction before deciding on charges against the 27-year-old officer who shot 21-year-old Lorenz.
• A separate trial opened June 5 in Berlin against a 40-year-old accused of attempting to murder his partner in Moabit by stabbing her as she slept last December.
• The Staatsanwaltschaft Kiel has identified a suspect in the fatal hit-and-run of a 25-year-old woman in Nindorf and is investigating negligent homicide.
• Police in Osthessen are probing suspected drug influence after a single-vehicle crash on the B324 near Bad Hersfeld injured a 21-year-old driver and prompted a blood sample.