Landsberg, Saxony-Anhalt: On a dirt road in Landsberg (Saalekreis), a man is said to have shot several times from a group of bushes at two trees. Witnesses informed the police, who said they found various shell casings and projectiles in the trees on site. In the course of the investigation, a 52-year-old man was checked, who turned out to be the shooter. A gun was confiscated when the car was searched. The man from Halle was under the influence of drugs, and there was also an arrest warrant against him. He was taken to a correctional facility on Saturday.
Source: dpa
Kremmen, Brandenburg: Unknown persons blew up a ticket machine on a platform at Kremmen (Oberhavel) station. Then, early on Saturday morning, they stole the cash box from the badly damaged machine and fled, the police reported on Sunday. Witnesses reported a loud detonation to police at 2:35 a.m. Officials secured evidence at the crime scene and began the investigation. The police are still looking for other witnesses to the crime.
Source: dpa
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg: Not an everyday find: A 37-year-old found and caught a poisonous scorpion in a hallway in Göppingen. The resident discovered the black animal, which was about three centimeters tall, in an apartment building on Saturday evening, as reported by the Ulm police headquarters on Sunday.
According to the police, none of the residents in the house are known to have exotic arachnids. The scorpion was probably brought in from vacation by residents who had just returned from the Canary Islands, so the animal probably traveled to Germany as a “stowaway” in their luggage. It was housed in the zoo in Göppingen, which already has two similar specimens in care.
Sources: APP, dpa
Rostock district, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: The A20 motorway in the Rostock district is to be closed in the direction of Szczecin for almost two months. The road between the Bad Doberan and Kröpelin junctions, including the Quellental car park, will be closed from August 21 until October 23, according to Autobahn GmbH. A diversion is signposted via the Kröpelin junction. The closure is due to a necessary renovation, the road surface of the highway must be renewed. According to the information, the Bad Doberan junction remains passable in the direction of Lübeck.
Parts of the A 20 autobahn collapsed a few years ago. According to reports, the reason was a closed peat deposit under the roadway.
Source: dpa, “FAZ.net”
Augsburg, Bavaria: On the sidelines of the football match between FC Augsburg and Borussia Mönchengladbach (4: 4) in the Bundesliga, a police officer fired a shot with a service weapon. This was “according to initial knowledge” unintentional, as the police headquarters in Swabia North announced late Saturday evening. Bystanders were not injured in the incident. The shot hit a van from a fan club, Fanhilfe Mönchengladbach wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the van was empty.
The shot was fired at around 5:30 p.m. in a delimited area on the stadium grounds, the police said. Three officers suffered a bang trauma, one policeman a graze. “A police vehicle and a fan bus were damaged in the incident,” police said. “The more detailed background to the process is currently the subject of investigations. As is usual in such cases, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office is also involved.”
Source: dpa, Police Headquarters Swabia North
The Columbiabad in Berlin-Neukölln has been cleared again because of bullying by young people. As the police confirmed, they were alerted at 6:20 p.m. on Friday evening and were on site with eight officers when hundreds of people had to leave the bathroom early on the instructions of the staff. The “B.Z.” reported.
As a police spokeswoman said, young people had argued with the pool security guards and occupied the lifeguard’s watchtower. There was no physical violence, but rather boorish and boorish behavior. The pool closed half an hour earlier than usual at 7:30 p.m. At the top there were 2,300 people, said the police spokeswoman.
Security measures had been increased in the bath due to various incidents this summer. There were several evictions because recalcitrant young people and young men argued, bullied and sometimes even beat up. In other pools, too, the pool companies and the Senate have now introduced video surveillance at the entrances and, in addition to bag checks, also ID checks.
Source: dpa
Marktschellenberg, Bavaria: During a hike in the Berchtesgadener Land, a holidaymaker fell 200 meters and suffered fatal injuries. The police said her husband saw the accident on Friday afternoon on the Hammerstielsteig in Bavaria. The 57-year-old from the Black Forest slipped on a paved path in the steep terrain and fell down. Mountain rescuers, police and air rescue could no longer help the woman. How exactly the accident happened was initially unclear. However, the police ruled out third-party fault.
Source: dpa
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia: After an accident with 14 injuries and ten damaged vehicles, a 28-year-old man has to answer on suspicion of a prohibited car race. As the police announced on Saturday, citing witness statements, the man drove through several red traffic lights in a sports car at excessive speed on Friday evening and then drove into vehicles waiting in front of another red traffic light.
The sports car took off and then stayed on the roof of a small car. Other cars were pushed into each other and wedged. On the street not far from the Cologne-Deutz train station, there was a picture of devastation, pieces of debris were scattered in a wide area.
The police arrested the suspected cause of the accident on the spot, he could no longer be spoken to. The suspect, who is also accused of dangerous bodily harm, and the 30-year-old small car driver were seriously injured in the hospital. The other people involved in the accident were slightly injured. A blood sample was taken from the man, and a possible internal health reason is also being examined. Investigators confiscated the accident car and three cell phones.
Source: dpa
Hanover, Lower Saxony: Several onlookers disturbed an emergency doctor’s mission at a music festival in Hanover. The young man from Bavaria who had to be treated died a little later. The rescue workers were called because the 21-year-old had fallen to the ground near a stage due to health problems, the police said on Saturday. During the operation, the police had to push back several people.
A 43-year-old tried to take pictures of the operation with his cell phone, according to the police. Investigators found no videos on the device. The man was given a place reference.
The 21-year-old was initially resuscitated and taken to a hospital. However, he died there on Friday evening. According to the police, there is no evidence of third-party negligence. The organizer of the festival initially did not comment on the incident.
Source: dpa
Weißenburg, Bavaria: As a result of the storm with heavy rain in Franconia, part of the historic city wall in Weißenburg collapsed. The wall had collapsed over a length of around 25 meters, a city spokesman said on Friday. Nobody got hurt. The city wall is therefore part of the old town built in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Source: dpa
Nuremberg, Bavaria: The thunderstorms on Thursday evening in Franconia led to rainfall of up to 68 liters per square meter within one hour. This value was measured, among other things, in Gößweinstein (Forchheim district) in Upper Franconia, said a spokesman for the German Weather Service (DWD) in Munich on Friday. In Nuremberg, where numerous basements and underpasses were flooded as a result of the heavy rain, around 47 liters of rain per square meter fell on Thursday between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Source: dpa
Braunschweig, Lower Saxony: A few days after a fall with an e-scooter in Braunschweig, an 80-year-old died in the hospital. The man fell on Monday and then went home without reporting the accident to the police or going to the doctor, the police said on Friday. Two days later, on Wednesday, he was found unconscious in his apartment. The 80-year-old was taken to the hospital, where he died, according to the police, as a result of a brain hemorrhage. There is no information about the exact course of the accident or the exact location of the accident, so the police are looking for possible witnesses.
Source: dpa
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia: The number of objections to property tax assessments continues to rise in North Rhine-Westphalia. By the end of June, a total of around 790,000 objections had been received by the tax offices. This emerges from a response from the state government to an FDP request, which was first reported by the “Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” (Friday) and which is available to the German Press Agency. Almost every second tax return was incomplete or incorrect and had to be reworked by the tax officials.
Source: dpa
Unterensingen, Baden-Württemberg: A 43-year-old succumbed to her injuries after the fatal lightning strike in Unterensingen (Esslingen district). The woman died in the hospital on Wednesday, as the Reutlingen police headquarters announced on Thursday. A day after the incident on Saturday, a 35-year-old man died in a clinic.
In addition to the two, four other people were affected. The woman’s eleven-year-old son was initially also in mortal danger. A rescue helicopter flew him to the hospital. His condition improved somewhat over the weekend, but he remained hospitalized. The man’s 40-year-old wife was injured, the four-year-old son and almost eleven-month-old daughter suffered a shock. According to the police, they were in a bicycle trailer at the time of the storm.
The accident happened under a tree at a tourist restaurant. According to the police, more than a dozen people sought shelter in a barn because of the storm, while those affected remained seated at a beer table set.
Source: DPA
Osnabrück, Lower Saxony: Because he was caught drunk with an e-scooter, a man has to give up his driver’s license for five months and pay a fine. The district court in Osnabrück confirmed an identical decision by the district court in an appeal hearing on Thursday, as a court spokesman said. The public prosecutor’s office had viewed the verdict of the first instance as too lenient and not only called for a temporary driving ban, but also for the driver’s license to be revoked. In this case, the man would have had to reapply for his driver’s license after a certain period of time.
The 34-year-old man left the stadium on an e-scooter in October 2022 after attending a football game with a friend. He had a blood alcohol level of 1.44 per thousand. After his friend fell, the accused called the ambulance. His driver’s license was seized at the scene of the accident. According to the Federal Court of Justice, a driving license can be withdrawn if you are absolutely unfit to drive. However, there could be exceptions to this rule. The accused not only took part in a traffic education seminar, but also medically proved by examining a hair sample from April and July that he no longer drinks alcohol, said the court spokesman. From the point of view of the court, the accused had thus shown that he really regretted his actions.
Source: DPA
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse: Floods, full basements, canceled flights: the heavy rain has had an effect in parts of Germany. Due to the rain over Frankfurt, dozens of flights were canceled at the airport there: On Wednesday evening, large amounts of water had collected on the apron, among other things, said an airport spokesman. Numerous flights were cancelled, others could not take off on time or had to be diverted to other airports.
Ground handling at the airport was halted for more than two hours, another spokesman said. Due to the late resumption of handling, 34 machines could not have taken off in time on Wednesday evening. Other flights had already been canceled by the airlines themselves. Around 70 flight cancellations were noted on the airport’s website before the night flight ban began. 23 planned arrivals were also diverted to other airports due to the night flight ban. According to initial estimates by Frankfurt Airport, a four-digit number of passengers were affected by the problems.
Source: DPA
Germany: There were also storms in other parts of Germany, but these did not seem to have any serious consequences. In Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia flooded basements during the night. Manhole covers were also lifted by the enormous amount of rain, police said. There were numerous fire brigade operations as a result of the heavy rain.
According to a police spokesman, hundreds of firefighters were deployed in southern Hesse. Flooded cellars and flooded streets and underpasses occupied the forces. The exact number of missions was not yet known. The German Weather Service (DWD) had issued a warning of severe thunderstorms with heavy rain from Wednesday evening for all of Hesse and other parts of Germany.
Source: DPA
Medenbach, Hessen: On Wednesday evening there was a serious accident on the A3 between Medenbach (near Wiesbaden) and the Wiesbadener Kreuz. According to the police, the driver of a small truck drove into a truck driving in front of him without braking.
The 61-year-old driver of the small truck was freed from the truck and finally taken to a hospital. He died there a few hours later from his injuries. The second truck driver was not injured. Because of the subsequent full closure, a traffic jam of up to 14 kilometers formed.
Source: “Hessenschau”
Neustadt an der Aisch, Bavaria: A man was bitten by three escaped dogs in Central Franconia when he tried to protect his own two dogs from them. One of his Yorkshire terriers died in Wednesday morning’s attack and the second has been missing since.
The three Kangal dogs had escaped from their kennel, police said. They attacked the man in Neustadt an der Aisch who was walking his two Yorkshire terriers. The man reportedly lifted his dogs to save them, but was jumped on by the aggressive animals and bitten on the arm. He fell and injured his knee. One of his dogs died at the scene from bites, the other was carried away by the attacking animals and has not yet been found.
Police launched a full-scale manhunt for the Kangal dogs, known as Turkish Shepherd Dogs. One of the dogs returned to its kennel on its own, another was found and picked up by its owner. The third dog was also tracked down shortly thereafter and taken to his kennel. The police are now investigating how the dogs escaped and whether the owner violated regulations.
Source: DPA
Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt: Saxony-Anhalt’s Ministry of Education prohibits the use of gender asterisks and similar spellings in schools. Education Minister Eva Feußner (CDU) told the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung that this type of grammar is prohibited in the entire school cosmos. It applies to both teaching and official correspondence. The ban refers to grammatical special characters in the middle of the word, which aim to consciously address all genders. In addition to the gender asterisk, this also includes constructions such as “teachers” and “students”.
The Ministry justifies the decision with the most recent decision of the German Spelling Council. He had stated that the special grammatical forms did not correspond to the current official set of rules.
Bosau, Schleswig-Holstein: Several spiders triggered a night-time police operation in an apartment building on the Great Plöner See. After vigilant walkers had heard panicked women screaming on Tuesday evening, they informed the police in the municipality of Bosau (Ostholstein district), as the officials announced on Wednesday. With a neighbor’s key, the police got into the house as quickly as possible. When they arrived at the apartment in question, however, it turned out that the trigger for the 20-year-old woman’s great panic was only several spiders in the building.
Source: DPA
Fensterbach, Bavaria: A man drove his car over several beehives in the Upper Palatinate – and thus destroyed the home of 22 bee colonies. The surviving, “now wild” animals stayed behind at the scene of the accident in Fensterbach (Schwandorf district), the police said. Three hours after the incident on Wednesday night, a 24-year-old reported to the investigators as the culprit – according to him, under pressure from his parents. According to the report, a breath alcohol test on the man showed a value of more than one per thousand. He was being investigated for, among other things, hit-and-run accidents and endangering road traffic.
Source: DPA
In just one week, more than 43,000 people have already signed an appeal against the release of strictly protected otters in Bavaria. In it, the WWF and the signatories call on Prime Minister Markus Söder and Minister of Agriculture Michaela Kaniber (both CSU) to fully implement species protection again.
In all districts of Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate, with the exception of Neumarkt, otters have been able to be removed, i.e. shot, without individual special permits since August 1st. Kaniber justified the step by saying that the “regions that have been particularly shaped by fish farming for centuries” are threatened by the otter.
Berlin: A Berlin police officer is said to have stopped a driver during a fake identity check and robbed him of tens of thousands of euros. The 48-year-old was arrested for robbery and suspended with immediate effect, the prosecutor and the police announced on Tuesday. In his apartment and in the offices he uses, evidence was found during searches on Monday. However, the commissioner is at large. According to the authorities, an arrest warrant against him was suspended. According to the investigation, the police officer is said to have had an accomplice in the crime. So far, however, this has remained unknown.
The duo is said to have waved out and stopped a car driver on July 19 at around 11:15 p.m. on the Berlin city highway near Messedamm with special signals and a police signal. The police officer, who was already at the end of the day at the time, is said to have been traveling in his department’s civilian company car. According to the investigation, he was wearing his uniform and had his service weapon in his holster. The impression was given to the 62-year-old that it was a proper police measure.
During the check, the officer and his accomplice are said to have handcuffed the driver and put him in the police car. Then they are said to have taken more than 57,000 euros in cash and two cell phones from his car. The 62-year-old is said to have received a seizure report – but the confiscated money was not listed.
Source: dpa
Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: A courageous train driver saved a woman from a suspected sex offender on a train near Rostock. As a spokesman for the federal police said on Wednesday, the 41-year-old railway employee intervened on Tuesday when a man came too close to the 21-year-old passenger on the journey and allegedly touched her intimate parts of the body against her will. The incident happened on the train between Ticino and Rostock.
Brandenburg: Brandenburg: In Brandenburg an der Havel, strong thunderstorms knocked down numerous trees and caused damage. The entire city was affected by the storm damage, said a spokesman for the local regional control center early in the morning.
The storm had already started on Tuesday evening, trees of all sizes were knocked down, the spokesman said. “I’ve never experienced such a storm.” Roofs were also covered accordingly. The thunderstorm once swept across the city. According to the current status, there were no injuries.
Source: DPA
Pößneck, Thuringia: After three failed rounds of negotiations, the Verdi union has announced that the warning strikes in Thuringia’s retail trade will be continued. Verdi announced on Wednesday that various Kaufland branches were called, especially from the East Thuringia region. Employees want to meet for a strike rally on Wednesday morning in front of Kaufland in Pößneck in the Saale-Orla district.
“The employees need wage increases well above the inflation rate,” said the trade union secretary of the Verdi union, Matthias Adorf.
Source: DPA
A driver and his passenger were seriously injured in an accident due to aquaplaning on Autobahn 96 near Memmingen. The 23-year-old driver lost control of his car late Tuesday evening in heavy rain, police said. The car threw itself off the road, rolled over several times and came to rest on the left side. The young man and his 19-year-old passenger were trapped in the vehicle and freed by firefighters. The two were taken to the hospital by rescue helicopter and ambulance with serious injuries.
SalzInhibitororf, Lower Saxony: Researchers from Germany, the USA and Peru have named a newly discovered species of snake from the Peruvian Andes after the Hollywood actor and Indiana Jones actor Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford’s slender snake, also called Tachymenoides harrisonford, is about 40 centimeters long, according to the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science (DGHT).
The naming is intended to honor Ford’s conservation work. The animal is light yellow-brown with isolated black spots, the belly is black. It probably feeds on lizards and frogs. The snake is harmless to humans.
What: AFP
Heidenheim/Ulm, Baden-Württemberg: The police expect that investigations into the case of the kidnapped and murdered banker’s wife Maria Bögerl from Heidenheim will be resumed at some point. He thinks this is “probable,” said a spokesman for the police headquarters in Ulm. In the Bögerl case, the investigators have a DNA trace that “can be clearly assigned to a male perpetrator”.
On Monday, the public prosecutor’s office and the police announced that the investigation into the murder case would be stopped for the time being because no perpetrator could be found. Maria Bögerl, the wife of the then head of the savings bank in Heidenheim, was kidnapped on May 12, 2010 from her home in Heidenheim. In early June 2010, a pedestrian discovered her body.
Chemnitz, Saxony: Three people were injured in an accident with a carriage in Frauenstein, Saxony. The horse shied on Monday while driving on a slight incline, whereupon the team left the road and overturned because of a tree root, as the police in Chemnitz announced on Tuesday. The seriously injured horse had to be euthanized on site by a veterinarian.
What: AFP
Berlin: Police officers were aggressively harassed by around 100 people during an operation in Berlin. The trigger was the arrest of a young man in the Neukölln district, who is said to have sexually insulted a woman, the police said on Tuesday. Dozens of supporters then flocked to force the man’s release. Glass bottles were thrown out of the crowd.
What: AFP
Berlin: Despite increased security measures, there was another violent incident with police action in the Columbiabad in Berlin-Neukölln. A security guard was attacked and beaten by two men on Monday night, police said. The men had apparently been summoned by two women who had been arguing with the security guards.
Source: dpa
Goslar, Lower Saxony: More than four years after a bronze rooster was stolen, the landmark of Goslar-Hahnenklee has unexpectedly returned. The rooster arrived in a nine-kilo package from the Uckermark, said the district town in the Harz Mountains. There, a forester found the rooster on a mountain of rubbish, initially forgot about it, but then started researching it.
Brandenburg: The police have secured several thousand cannabis plants in a warehouse in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. The officials became aware of the abandoned warehouse on Monday through a tip from the population, as a police spokesman said. Accordingly, it was determined in the course of the investigation that the power consumption in the non-commercial hall had recently increased significantly. There is no information about the perpetrators yet.
Nuremberg, Bavaria: Because he sexually abused a boy several times and, among other things, threatened other children with similar acts, a 43-year-old has to serve a six-year prison sentence. The Nuremberg district court found the accused guilty on Tuesday, among other things, of the serious sexual abuse of the child and the production of pornographic content. The man had previously confessed to the crimes in court.
The man had regularly taken care of his victim in Swabia and severely abused him six times. He filmed and photographed two of the crimes. The police only became aware of him in Nuremberg, where he had been regularly for retraining since 2021.
Source: dpa
Hamburg: Around 200 passengers stayed for several hours on the free route near Hamburg in a broken down ICE, including the head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller. A technical defect meant that the ICE 1675 towards Frankfurt could not continue, said a spokesman for Deutsche Bahn early Tuesday morning. First, the vehicle should be pulled away with the help of an auxiliary locomotive, but this did not work. The approximately 200 passengers had to wait around four hours before they could change to a replacement train with the help of the fire department. Many reacted annoyed, as a dpa reporter reported.
After four hours, he feels a bit tired and annoyed, like everyone else, Müller told the dpa. The passengers were not informed about the reason for the stop during the long waiting time on the train, he complained and added: “I wish the railways every success in their investment planning.” The disruption had no effect on further operations, other trains were not affected, it was said.
Source: DPA
Wiesbaden, Hesse: 13 firefighters were injured when a hazardous substance escaped on the premises of a paper manufacturer in Wiesbaden. According to a fire department spokesman on Tuesday, they suffered irritation of the respiratory tract. Twelve of them were temporarily taken to clinics, but have since been released. After the exit on Monday evening, the fire brigade operation lasted until Tuesday morning.
The substance stored in containers, which is used for paper production, decomposed as a result of a chemical reaction, according to the fire brigade. This resulted in heavy smoke and high temperatures. The resulting sulfur dioxide also led to an enormous odor in the neighborhood. The fire brigade was in action with a large contingent. The cause of the incident was initially unclear.
Source: DPA
Lake Constance district: A Swiss woman fell on a rubber dinghy on Lake Constance and was seriously injured by a metal flagpole that pierced her chest. The 62-year-old wanted to go from one inflatable boat to the next on Lake Constance in front of Immenstaad on Sunday evening and fell, as the police announced on Monday night. The woman fell on a metal flagstick, which drilled into her chest under her armpit. The fire brigade severed the stick. The woman was taken to a hospital with the item.
Source: DPA
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg: After the fatal lightning strike near Stuttgart, doctors continue to fight for the life of a 43-year-old. A 35-year-old man died Sunday as a result of Saturday’s incident. The woman, an eleven-year-old boy and a mother with two children were also under the tree in the municipality of Unterensingen in the Esslingen district when the lightning struck.
Like the 35-year-old, the 43-year-old and the boy suffered life-threatening injuries and were taken to hospitals in the region. According to a police spokesman, while the child was doing a little better on Sunday, the woman was still in intensive care. The other woman, a 40-year-old, was less seriously injured. Her children, a 4-year-old boy and a girl, almost 11 months old, were shocked. According to the police, they were in a bicycle trailer at the time of the storm.
First responders took care of the injured until they were taken to hospitals. The rescue service was on site with a large contingent. About 15 other people had taken shelter in a barn. Experts advise people to seek shelter in a building or a closed car during thunderstorms. Outside you should find a flat spot or, better still, a deep spot, squat down, put your feet close together and close your arms around your knees.
Eilerde: A 28-year-old died on his motorcycle near Eilerde near Hagen on Sunday morning. As the police announced on Monday, the man from Dortmund was injured so badly in a fall that rescue workers could no longer help him. Even the help of a rescue helicopter came too late. His passenger was in shock. The cause of the accident is so far unclear. The motorcycle was secured, the police are accepting witnesses on telephone number 02352/9199-0.
Source: Press release police Märkischer Kreis
Klingenberg: Ten people were injured in an accident involving a horse-drawn carriage in Klingenberg near Dresden. At the time of the accident, an eight-year-old was driving the car under the supervision of an inebriated coachman, the police said on Monday. An alcohol test on the 34-year-old showed a value of more than 1.3 per mille. Both the boy and the driver were injured in the accident. Previously reported the “image”.
Accordingly, the carriage came off the path on Sunday evening on a dirt road to the left and overturned. According to the police, it was still unclear how many people were in the carriage. Due to the large number of injuries, including a 97-year-old, several ambulances and a rescue helicopter were used. There was initially no information about the severity of the injuries. The police estimate the property damage to the carriage at around 50 euros. The two carriage horses were unharmed.
Source: DPA
Rostock: After an accident, around 500 packages were distributed on Autobahn 20 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. According to the police headquarters in Rostock, a transporter collided with the outer crash barrier and then with another vehicle on Monday night for reasons unknown. The body of the transporter tore open, whereupon the freight was distributed on the road.
The autobahn was closed for hours between the Kröpelin and Neukloster junctions in the direction of Lübeck. Nobody was harmed during the accident.
What: AFP
