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August Hanning war Präsident des Bundesnachrichtendienstes. Gegen ihn und seinen ehemaligen Büroleiter wird wegen Spionagevorwürfen ermittelt.
Der wegen Spionageverdachts festgenommene ehemalige Präsident des Bundesnachrichtendiensts (BND), August Hanning, muss in Untersuchungshaft. Ein Ermittlungsrichter des Bundesgerichtshofs (BHG) habe den Haftbefehl gegen den 80-Jährigen in Vollzug gesetzt, sagte eine Sprecherin der Bundesanwaltschaft. Die oberste deutsche Anklagebehörde wirft Hanning geheimdienstliche Agententätigkeit, landesverräterische Ausspähung, Auskundschaften von Staatsgeheimnissen und versuchten Landesverrat vor.
Hanning wurde am Dienstag festgenommen, ebenso wie sein früherer Büroleiter beim BND, Manfred D. Diesem wird Beihilfe zum versuchten Landesverrat und zur landesverräterischen Ausspähung vorgeworfen, in Untersuchungshaft musste D. ebenfalls bereits am Dienstag.
Investigators from North Rhine-Westphalia, in cooperation with the Japanese police, arrested a leading head of the Russian hacker group “Qilin” in Tokyo and transferred him to Germany. The group is behind thousands of extortion cases worldwide.
A 78-year-old woman was found dead in a fire in an apartment building in Bad Dürkheim. The police have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire and death and are asking the public for any relevant information.
Eight people were injured, two of them seriously, in a knife attack at a vocational school center in Ostrołęka, Poland. The 19-year-old suspect, himself a student at the facility, was arrested after a manhunt.
A suspected member of the Russian hacker group Qilin was arrested in Japan after investigations by the LKA NRW and the ZAC and extradited to Germany. This is the first arrest of a member of this group.
A 23-year-old sex offender from Lower Saxony abused children again while on prison leave in Bavaria. The defendant made a confession before the Aschaffenburg regional court; the public prosecutor's office demands preventive detention.

Former BND President August Hanning was taken into custody one day after his arrest. He is accused of secret service spying, treasonous spying and attempted treason.