Simon Rott News Today

The Bonn police assume that a technical defect led to the car fire on Bonner Talweg. There are about 40,000 cases of this kind throughout Germany every year. The ADAC advises drivers to remain calm, saying an explosion is unlikely.

In the past weeks, climate protesters who glued themselves to the ground had triggered two police operations in Bonn. The police do not charge them for the costs of the operations. There is currently no legal basis for this in NRW.

A false announcement of an earthquake in NRW startled many people late on Tuesday night. Police in Bonn also registered calls. However, there were no measurable seismographic tremors.

A canoeist recounts a dramatic incident. The German water rescue association DLRG welcomes the directive from the city of Bonn to no longer let day care children play at the water line. Small children are at risk of drowning even in shallow waters.

The claim that a Russian youth was beaten to death by a "mob of Ukrainian refugees" in the German city of Euskirchen was published in a video addressing Russians in Germany. However, the incident never happened.