Overview
- Potsdam prosecutors obtained a warrant and placed a 27-year-old in pretrial detention on suspicion of Totschlag and two counts of attempted Totschlag after a fatal sequence of crashes on the Berlin–Brandenburg border.
- Investigators say an in‑car fight preceded the collisions, with the younger man allegedly biting off a fingertip of the older occupant before taking the wheel, striking two pedestrians in Berlin and fatally hitting a cyclist in Teltow.
- Authorities are analyzing blood samples for alcohol or drugs and extracting electronic vehicle data as part of a forensic reconstruction of the crash.
- In a separate case in Düsseldorf, a 24-year-old is on trial for Totschlag and illegal weapons possession in the March shooting of an Uber passenger near the main station.
- At the trial’s outset, the Uber driver testified that the defendant is not the shooter, a claim the prosecutor attributes to possible confusion, while the origin of the semi‑automatic pistol remains under investigation.