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- Homicide in palermo, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old man was found dead in the street in the ZEN quarter of Palermo on 15 August 2026. His body was lying in via Costante Girardengo, and the Carabinieri were alerted by a telephone call. According to an initial reconstruction, the victim had surprised thieves who were rummaging through garages belonging to the public housing blocks. A struggle followed and he was struck in the face, reportedly with a screwdriver. A forensic pathologist attended the scene to establish the cause of death, and several people were called to the Carabinieri barracks to help reconstruct what had happened. No arrest had been reported at the time of the cited report.
- Attempted homicide in villeurbanne, FR
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 16-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded on a public street in Villeurbanne, in the Lyon metropolitan area, at around 1am on Saturday 15 August 2026. He was hit in the abdomen and in one calf and was taken to the Édouard Herriot hospital in Lyon, where he was admitted with his life in danger. According to a police source, two people fled the scene after the shooting, and cartridge cases of 7.62 and 7.65 mm calibre were recovered there. A source close to the case said the attackers were travelling on scooters and were armed with a long gun and a handgun, and placed the shooting in the Grandclément quarter. The Lyon public prosecutor's office said an investigation was opened on 15 August for attempted murder by an organised gang, transport and possession of a weapon, and criminal association, and was entrusted to the Rhône organised and specialised crime division. No arrest had been reported in connection with this shooting at the time of the cited report.
- Attempted homicide in nicosia, CY
· Alleged · 1 source
A 36-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia at midday on Friday 14 August 2026 over the alleged attempted murder of a 29-year-old woman. Police said he was being investigated over offences including attempted murder, assault causing actual bodily harm and violence against women. The woman went to Nicosia general hospital after being injured, where doctors found bruising, swelling and haematomas on various parts of her body. The suspect was due to appear before Nicosia district court the following day, when police were expected to seek a detention order. Investigations were continuing.
- Homicide in trani, IT
· Alleged · 4 sources
An 18-year-old man died in Trani, in Apulia, in the early hours of 13 August 2026 after being stabbed during a brawl. He was struck three times, including a wound to the back, shortly after midnight in the pinetina area of via Andria, where families with children were also present. He was taken first to a medical post in Trani and then to the hospital in Bisceglie, where he died soon afterwards of his injuries. The victim, who lived in nearby Andria, had been at a barbecue with friends in an area where young people had gathered to watch a solar eclipse. According to the carabinieri's initial reconstruction, a second group arrived, an argument escalated into punches and kicks, and the stabbing followed. Investigators examined surveillance camera footage of the fight and interviewed the young people from both groups. A 17-year-old is under investigation for the homicide. He turned himself in after learning that the victim had died and, in the carabinieri barracks in Trani, admitted inflicting the wounds while maintaining that he had been reacting to an assault. His lawyer said the dispute between the two had arisen over a shared interest in a girl. The knife used, legally held and bought from a gun shop, had not been recovered. The investigation is coordinated by the Trani public prosecutor's office and the juvenile prosecutor's office in Bari.
- Homicide in barreiro, PT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 32-year-old man was shot dead in the street near the Barreiro river terminal, south of Lisbon, on the night of Tuesday 11 August 2026. Emergency services were called to the Rua da Recosta at about 10.50pm. The victim, a Guinean national who lived in Germany and was in Portugal on holiday, was shot in the face at close range and died at the scene. According to witnesses, the shooting followed an argument over a board game played for money. Such games were held regularly in the street, drawing dozens of people, after a nearby café closed for the night. The argument escalated into a physical fight; the suspect is reported to have said he was going home to fetch a weapon, and to have returned with a revolver and opened fire. The judicial police opened an investigation. The suspect had been identified but not arrested at the time of the reports cited here.
- Attempted homicide in tønsberg, NO
· Alleged · 2 sources
Several shots were fired at a car at Jarlsberg in Tønsberg during the night going into Tuesday 11 August 2026. No injuries were reported. Police stepped up the investigation and said the case was being investigated as attempted murder. Officers had identified several suspects, but no one had been arrested at the time of the cited reports.
- Attempted homicide in toulouse, FR
· Alleged · 1 source
Two municipal police officers were attacked with a bladed weapon in Toulouse on the evening of Monday 10 August 2026. They were on patrol with a third officer in the city's streets when a man set upon them. One officer was wounded in the arm and the neck, the other in the elbow. Both were taken to the Rangueil teaching hospital and neither was in a life-threatening condition. The Toulouse public prosecutor's office opened an investigation for attempted murder of persons holding public authority, and assigned it to the organised and specialised crime division. The attacker was reported to have made remarks of a terrorist character during the attack. The prosecutor said that such remarks could not in themselves make the act a terrorist offence, though they made it necessary to examine the assailant's motives, and that only the investigation — after an assessment of his personality and record — would determine whether the national anti-terrorism prosecution service took over the case.
- Homicide in trofa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 71-year-old woman was shot dead at her home in the municipality of Trofa, in the parish of Muro, on 9 August 2026. The suspect, her former husband, killed himself immediately afterwards. The victim had separated from the suspect and had spent nearly two years living in a domestic-violence shelter before returning to the house. Neighbours said the suspect had made repeated threats against her during the marriage, including that he would burn her alive, and had said that if he found another man in the house he would kill her and then himself. The Judicial Police of Porto investigated the deaths.
- Attempted homicide in lanzo torinese, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Six cyclists were struck by a car shortly before 10:00 on 9 August 2026 near Lanzo Torinese, in the Turin metropolitan area, on the road towards Coassolo. The incident followed a roadside argument described by reporters as being over a trivial matter. After the first impact the driver is reported to have turned the car around and driven at the group a second time. All six cyclists survived. Four were injured with various trauma and fractures: two were airlifted to the CTO hospital and two were taken to the Giovanni Bosco hospital. The driver, a 73-year-old man, presented himself to the carabinieri and was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The public prosecutor placed him under house arrest.
- Homicide in montpellier, FR
· Charged · 7 sources
A 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed during a brawl in Montpellier late on the evening of Sunday 9 August 2026. The attack took place at about 11.20pm on the allée Alberto Giacometti, near the Georges Charpak park in the Port-Marianne district in the east of the city, close to a children's play area. Two groups of young people aged between 16 and 19 — at least seven in all, according to witnesses — fought for reasons that have not been established. One of them drew a knife and struck a minor from the rival group twice, once in the arm and once fatally in the chest. The attackers fled the scene on scooters. A doctor and his partner, a nurse, who lived nearby gave first aid including cardiac massage, the victim being in cardio-respiratory arrest. He was taken to the CHU Lapeyronie and died there at around 2am. Three people were taken into police custody over the killing. On the Monday morning a 17-year-old presented himself at a Montpellier police station, describing himself as the person who inflicted the knife wounds. On Wednesday 12 August he was placed under formal investigation for murder and remanded in provisional detention.
- Homicide in san pedro de alcántara, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A 35-year-old trans woman was stabbed to death at a home on calle Castilla in San Pedro de Alcántara, in the municipality of Marbella, on Sunday 9 August 2026. Her body was found the following afternoon after a member of the public alerted police at about 16:15. Paramedics who reached the address could not save her; she had knife wounds. Her partner, a 59-year-old Spanish man who lived with her, was arrested on the Monday and confessed to officers when they arrived at the property. The victim was of Venezuelan origin. Police are handling the case under the domestic-violence regime rather than the gender-violence regime, because she had not begun the administrative procedure for legal recognition of her sex. Investigators reported that arguments between the couple had been frequent: on 1 August 2026 each had reported the other for assault, both were arrested and brought before the court of first instance at Marbella, but neither would confirm the complaint and the matter was shelved.
- Homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 5 sources
A 30-year-old man was shot dead on the Hardenbergplatz, in front of Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, at about 11.50pm on Sunday 9 August 2026. Shots were fired after a dispute involving several people in the street, and the victim died at the scene despite attempts to resuscitate him. A homicide squad is investigating on behalf of the Berlin public prosecutor's office. The suspect or suspects left the scene by vehicle after the shooting and no arrest had been reported at the time of the cited coverage. The prosecution service gave no details of the people involved or of the background to the dispute, saying only that the investigation was continuing.
- Homicide in kosharitsa, BG
· Alleged · 1 source
A man was killed in the early hours of 9 August 2026 in a private dwelling in the Sun House complex, in the Cholakova Cheshma locality near the village of Kosharitsa, in Nesebar municipality on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. The victim was a Ukrainian national living in Bulgaria with refugee status. He died at around 3:00 a.m. from a throat wound that caused massive blood loss, and medical staff confirmed his death at the scene. Police reported that the killing followed a bout of drinking and a quarrel between two Ukrainian men. The victim's body was found by a third Ukrainian resident of the dwelling, who had been in the bathroom while the attack took place. The suspect, a Ukrainian citizen living in Sofia, was detained by Burgas regional police near Kableshkovo as he drove away in a car registered in Sofia. An autopsy was ordered at the forensic medicine department of the Burgas University Hospital.
- Homicide in den haag, NL
· Alleged · 4 sources
A woman was shot at a house on the New Yorksingel, in the Wateringse Veld district in the south of Den Haag, shortly after 2am on Saturday 8 August 2026. Emergency services found her seriously wounded at the address, where she lived, and she died. A suspect was arrested after police searched another property. An object resembling a weapon was recovered when he was detained, and the car used to flee the scene was seized. He is being held in full restrictions and may have contact only with his lawyer. The victim was reported to have been 34 and visibly pregnant, and her household was known to the domestic-abuse support service. A silent procession was held in her memory on the Thursday evening following her death.
- Homicide in birmingham, GB
· Charged · 3 sources
A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death on Chester Road in Sutton Coldfield, in the City of Birmingham, in the early hours of Saturday 8 August 2026. Police were called shortly after midnight and found him at the scene, where he died. A man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of murder the same day and held in custody. West Midlands Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the killing and that the suspect and the victim were thought to have known each other. On Sunday 9 August a 20-year-old was charged with murder and remanded in custody to appear before magistrates in Birmingham the following day. The victim's family asked for their privacy to be respected.
- Homicide in leopoldsburg, BE
· Charged · 1 source
A 41-year-old man is being held on suspicion of murder after his girlfriend was struck and killed by his van on the Kerkhovenweg in Leopoldsburg, Limburg, on the evening of Saturday 8 August 2026, at around 7.30pm. The 40-year-old woman, from Heusden-Zolder, died at the scene of her injuries. The suspect, from Lommel, had drunk too much at the time of the incident; a saliva test for drugs was negative. He was arrested shortly afterwards on suspicion of murder and denies hitting her deliberately. Whether the collision was intentional remains the central question of the investigation. On 14 August 2026 the raadkamer in Hasselt ruled that he remains in pre-trial detention.
- Homicide in tauste, ES
· Alleged · 2 sources
A married couple were stabbed to death at their home in Tauste, a town of just under 7,000 people in the Cinco Villas district of the province of Zaragoza, on Friday 7 August 2026. Their bodies were found at 9pm the following day, in separate rooms of the terraced house on the calle Ronda Val de Volvi. One victim was a man who had formerly held office as secretary general of a regional farmers' and livestock breeders' union; the other was his wife. On the Monday the Guardia Civil arrested one of the couple's daughters and her current partner, a Colombian national, on suspicion of the double homicide. Both were due to be brought before the court of first instance at Ejea de los Caballeros. Investigators continued working to reconstruct the events, concentrating on the forensic examination of the house.
- Homicide in madrid, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
An 84-year-old man was killed on Friday 7 August 2026 in his flat in the San Pascual neighbourhood, in the Ciudad Lineal district of Madrid. Police and the SUMMA emergency medical service attended the scene, on a street close to the mosque and the M-30 funeral home. A woman was detained, accused of killing him. She is the partner of the dead man's son and had been at the flat; according to the reporting she confessed to having caused his death, saying it was an act of self-defence because he had attacked her with a knife and that she asphyxiated him while they struggled. Her partner was in the flat at the time, taking part in a videoconference in an adjoining room. No charging decision has been reported. The judicial status of the case remains at the alleged stage.
- Attempted homicide in paphos, CY
· Charged · 2 sources
A 51-year-old monk was arrested on Friday 7 August 2026 in connection with an attempted murder at a monastery in the Paphos district of Cyprus, in which two people were wounded. According to the account given to reporters, a delegation of priests had visited the monastery earlier that day and asked the monk to hand over the keys to his cell and leave the community. Two of those present were then stabbed. A 53-year-old man was wounded in the throat and needed stitches. A 27-year-old priest was wounded in the hand and was treated in the casualty department before being released. Both were taken to hospital and neither died. The monk was taken into custody. Later reporting identified the site as the Saint Neophytos monastery in Tala, Paphos, and gave the trigger as a dispute over the monk occupying two cells, one of which had formerly been his father's. On 14 August 2026 the case was referred to the Paphos criminal court, with a trial date set for 7 October. The monk stands accused of attempted murder, transportation of an offensive instrument and stabbing. His defence argued that the chances of conviction were "almost non-existent" and that he posed no flight risk, while the prosecuting authority asked for him to remain in custody; a decision on continued detention was due on 18 August.
- Homicide in barcelona, ES
· Alleged · 4 sources
A man died on Thursday 6 August 2026 after being attacked in the street in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. Officers of the Guàrdia Urbana alerted the Mossos d'Esquadra at about 12:40 that a person had been found injured on a public street. Several police patrols and four ambulances from the Medical Emergency Service attended. The man was taken to hospital in a very serious condition but later died. The Criminal Investigation Division of the Mossos d'Esquadra has taken charge of the case to establish the circumstances of the death. The proceedings are under judicial secrecy, and no arrest has been reported.
- Homicide in merchtem, BE
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 7-year-old boy was found dead in an apartment on Korte Ridderstraat in Merchtem, in Flemish Brabant, during the night of Wednesday 6 to Thursday 7 August 2026. The medical examiner found that he died as a result of his injuries, which were consistent with child abuse; investigators found various lesions on his body. Three adults who were in the home were taken into custody. The boy's 24-year-old uncle is held on suspicion of murder and has admitted being responsible for the death, though his lawyer argues that the charge is too severe and that the case should be treated as assault and battery resulting in death. The boy's 27-year-old mother and her 22-year-old housemate are held on suspicion of culpable neglect; the housemate's lawyer says she was on another floor of the building and called the emergency services as soon as she realised something was wrong. On 12 August 2026 the pre-trial chamber in Brussels extended the detention of all three. Residents of Merchtem organised a silent procession for the boy.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old woman was stabbed to death on the night of Wednesday 5 August 2026 in Lisbon. The killing followed an argument between two people who rented rooms in the same flat on Rua dos Prazeres, in the Misericórdia parish. According to a spokesperson for the Public Security Police, the suspect — a 30-year-old man who shared the flat with her — used a bladed weapon to stab the victim in the neck and face. She did not survive her injuries and died on the kitchen floor. The alert was raised at about 22:33 by the suspect himself, who called the police after the attack. No charge has been reported at this stage.
- Homicide in prato, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 32-year-old man was found killed on the evening of 5 August 2026 in a holding cell at the La Dogaia prison in Prato, Tuscany, after a fight between inmates. He was held in the wing reserved for sex offenders, sharing the cell with three other prisoners. A post-mortem inspection found a head injury caused by a blunt object and bleeding from the nose, along with bruising inside the upper lip and a laceration to the left side of the forehead. The Prato public prosecutor's office is investigating the death as manslaughter arising from an intentional assault (omicidio preterintenzionale). The inquiry, led by prosecutors and carried out by the prison police and the Prato flying squad, is working to reconstruct events, identify who caused the death, and establish the motive for the fight. Forensic police also attended the scene. No arrest has been reported. Prosecutors described the death as part of a continuing wave of violence at the overcrowded facility, which holds some 640 inmates in cells that in many cases — including the one where the killing occurred — hold four prisoners each.
- Homicide in murcia, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A woman was stabbed to death on the afternoon of Wednesday 5 August 2026 in a shopping centre in Murcia. According to the reporting, the suspect — her husband — attacked her with a knife and fled the scene. Her body was found by an employee of one of the shopping centre's businesses, who raised the alarm. The National Police attended the scene to investigate. Several hours later, in the early morning, officers detained the suspect. No charge has been reported at this stage.
- Homicide in värmdö, SE
· Alleged · 1 source
A woman in her 50s was found dead at a home in Värmdö municipality, on an island in the Stockholm archipelago, on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 August 2026. Police were alerted to the address at around 16:30 and were initially reticent about the nature of the call, but confirmed at about 23:00 that a woman had been found dead there. The circumstances of the death led police to open a murder investigation. A prosecutor leading the preliminary inquiry confirmed to public radio that officers are searching for a person of interest in the case. No arrest has been reported. More than a day after the alert, police remained on the island through Wednesday evening. A spokesperson for the Stockholm police region said crime-prevention officers were present in the evening to provide reassurance and give residents an opportunity to speak with police.