Petrol station robbed at knifepoint in Gelsenkirchen
An unidentified man robbed a petrol station in Gelsenkirchen's Buer district on 20 January while holding a knife.
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Chronological overview of published knife attacks, knife threats, and cases of robbery or extortion involving a knife in Germany.
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An unidentified man robbed a petrol station in Gelsenkirchen's Buer district on 20 January while holding a knife.
Two youths are suspected of threatening a child with a knife in Paderborn in an attempt to obtain the child's bicycle. Police provisionally detained both suspects.
A woman injured another woman with a knife in an apartment in Augsburg. The injured woman escaped, and the suspect was arrested.
After a woman was threatened in Bad Nenndorf, a 27-year-old man threatened police officers with two kitchen knives. Special officers arrested him.
An 18-year-old was stabbed multiple times after a dispute at Hillmannplatz in Bremen. The unidentified attacker fled.
A 21-year-old man is suspected of injuring a 30-year-old woman with a kitchen knife in an apartment in Heidenheim. He was remanded in custody on suspicion of attempted manslaughter.
A 37-year-old man is alleged to have threatened a store detective with a knife after a theft from a drugstore in Regensburg. He was later arrested and taken to prison under a warrant in another case.
A 61-year-old man is alleged to have stabbed a police officer multiple times with a knife in Munich. Police said the officer's protective equipment prevented serious injury, and the man was arrested.
A bread knife was allegedly used to threaten during a dispute between a young adult and his father in Albstadt. The father sustained minor injuries.
Two men allegedly threatened a pedestrian in Bottrop with a pointed object and stole his wallet and mobile phone. They fled on bicycles.
A 44-year-old lorry driver threatened an employee with a kitchen knife at the Bad Camberg service area after a theft. Police arrested him and took him into custody.
Three unknown people held a teenager in Radevormwald, beat him and lightly injured him with a knife.
In Rathenow, an unidentified man allegedly displayed a knife to four youths after an argument in a park. The youths fled, and a police search was unsuccessful.
Following a dispute between housemates in Adendorf, a man allegedly tried to stab another man with a kitchen knife. The other man sustained minor injuries.
Following a dispute at accommodation in Baden-Baden, a woman is alleged to have injured another woman with a machete. The suspect was provisionally arrested.
A 28-year-old man was seriously injured with a knife during a dispute at a hostel in Norderstedt. Three suspected participants fled before police arrived.
Two men sustained stab wounds during an altercation at Jungfernstieg in Hamburg. Three suspects were provisionally detained.
A group of about eight people allegedly robbed a 53-year-old man at Ziegenmarkt in Bremen. One man held a knife, while the victim was injured and robbed.
A 45-year-old man allegedly threatened neighbours with a knife in Gütersloh. Following a second police deployment, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
At Gablingen prison, a 27-year-old allegedly attacked a 36-year-old fellow inmate with two blunt knives. The man sustained minor injuries.