Suspect arrested after two officials killed during weapons check
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A police raid in the Bavarian town of Berngau ended with the arrest of a man suspected of shooting two public administration employees. The victims were conducting a routine weapons control operation when the incident occurred; their deaths have turned a procedural check on gun ownership into a national news story.
The Berlin coalition is testing the limits of its durability. The SPD's regional co-chair has threatened to collapse talks with the Left Party unless it addresses internal antisemitism, while the national government is looking toward 2027 to raise cigarette taxes and launch home-ownership subsidies that most citizens have yet to hear about.
Infrastructure and education are providing less comfort than usual. Federal data shows the number of repaired autobahn bridges is actually falling, and a record number of students are now leaving school without a diploma. Even the private sector is retreating: one power supplier has ceased operations, and BMW has decided it will not, after all, provide a service car to a regional parliament president from the AfD.