Homicide archive
144 documented cases.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Homicide in plovdiv, BG
· Charged · 4 sources
A 37-year-old man died on 4 August 2026 after being found with visible signs of violence at the foot of Youth Hill (Mladezhki halm) in Plovdiv. The emergency call was made to 112 at around 17:20 that day, and he died several hours later in hospital. The Plovdiv District Prosecutor's Office is investigating the death as an intentional homicide, and forensic specialists are carrying out active work to establish the facts. On 6 August 2026 it was reported that five juveniles — three girls and two boys — had been charged with intentional murder committed in a particularly torturous manner, with special cruelty, and on hooliganism and sexual motives. According to police, the victim had been contacted online by a 17-year-old girl who told him she was 15 and arranged a meeting; when he arrived at Youth Hill he was met instead by a group of around ten young people. A post-mortem examination found lacerations to the lungs and kidneys and a traumatic brain injury. On 13 August 2026 the appellate court upheld the first-instance ruling keeping all five detained teenagers in custody. The victim was buried the following day in Krichim, his home town, where the funeral service was led by the Metropolitan of Plovdiv and the municipality said residents were calling for tougher sentences for serious crimes committed by minors.
- Homicide in nice, FR
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 17-year-old boy was killed on Monday 3 August 2026 in the Madeleine district of Nice. His father, a 59-year-old care assistant, contacted police that afternoon saying he had just killed his son and intended to take his own life. Taken into custody on leaving hospital on suspicion of murder with premeditation, the suspect made initial admissions during questioning. According to a statement from the Nice public prosecutor's office, he said he had smothered his son with a pillow over his face and then strangled him with an iron cable, before placing the body in a body bag he had taken from his workplace at a hospital months or years earlier. He attributed the killing to a breakdown against the background of a marital separation. At the end of his police custody he was expected to be brought before the Nice prosecutor's office on Thursday ahead of the opening of a judicial investigation for murder with premeditation.
- Homicide in augsburg, DE
· Charged · 1 source
Two men were killed in the south of Augsburg on the evening of Monday 3 August 2026. Their bodies were found near an asylum accommodation. The victims were a 39-year-old man of Syrian and Saudi Arabian nationality and a 54-year-old Iraqi man. Police detained a 29-year-old man of Syrian and Saudi Arabian nationality on suspicion of two counts of manslaughter. An investigating judge subsequently issued an arrest warrant and he was remanded in custody. Officers searched the scene on the Tuesday morning. Police declined, citing the ongoing investigation, to say whether the suspect and the victims were residents of the nearby asylum accommodation. There is currently no indication of further suspects, and the background to the killings is under investigation.
- Homicide in warszawa, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
The body of a 53-year-old woman was found in an apartment in the Ochota district of Warsaw over the weekend of 1-2 August 2026, concealed in a shopping bag and in an advanced state of decomposition. Police discovered her while assisting with a welfare check requested by a resident of the building. The date of the killing has not been established in public reporting. A 32-year-old man was detained the same day in the Włochy district of the city and admitted to the act. He was placed in a detention facility and further investigative steps are planned. No charge has been reported.
- Homicide in verona, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
An 80-year-old woman was found dead on the morning of 31 July 2026 in her home in the Borgo Venezia district of Verona, in via Boccioni. She had been stabbed. Neighbours reported hearing screams. According to initial findings, the victim suffered from a degenerative illness. Her 52-year-old son, with whom she lived, was arrested and immediately admitted responsibility for the killing.
- Homicide in santander, ES
· Charged · 3 sources
A 27-year-old woman was found dead with stab wounds on 31 July 2026 in a flat in the Perines district of Santander, in Cantabria. Her 39-year-old partner called the police, confessed to the attack and was arrested the same day on suspicion of her killing. The couple had a child together and no previous complaints had been filed against him, and she was not registered in the Viogén system for monitoring victims of domestic abuse. On Monday 3 August 2026 he appeared before the court, which ordered him remanded in custody pending trial. The Spanish Ministry of Equality confirmed the killing as a case of gender-based violence. It was the thirty-third such killing recorded in Spain in 2026, and the 1,374th since records began in 2003.
- Homicide in murcia, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A man who worked as a debt collector was stabbed to death on 30 July 2026 in the Barriomar area of the municipality of Murcia, and his body was left under a bridge beneath a dual carriageway. He was found unconscious and covered in blood by a local resident; paramedics who reached the scene were unable to save him. His body bore around thirty stab wounds. Six people were arrested by the national police, all of them covered in blood when detained. According to the investigation so far, the victim had struck one of them — a person with whom he had financial and family dealings — which set off a fight between the two, after which those involved attacked him with knives. He died of his injuries.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Charged · 1 source
A 56-year-old man was stabbed in the head and killed on 29 July 2026 in an apartment in the Penha de França district of Lisbon, in a flat he shared with the suspect. After the killing the suspect withdrew to his room and concealed the knife used. A 64-year-old man was arrested and indicted for the homicide following evidence gathered by the Lisbon and Tagus Valley directorate of the Polícia Judiciária. He was brought before a court, which ordered pre-trial detention. Investigators have not established a motive but suspect the killing was connected to a dispute over the sharing of household expenses.
- Homicide in nærbø, NO
· Charged · 2 sources
A 30-year-old woman was found critically injured on the evening of Sunday 26 July 2026 at the address in Nærbø, in Hå municipality in Rogaland, where she lived with her partner. Passers-by alerted the police, who found her partner at the address. She was taken to Stavanger University Hospital and died of her injuries the following day. Her cohabiting partner, a man in his 30s, was charged with the killing. He denies criminal liability; through his defence lawyer he has said that she began bleeding from the nose and vomiting blood and that he called for help himself. He was remanded in custody for four weeks with restrictions on letters, visits and media access, and his appeal against the remand was rejected. Police have said the man was already under investigation over a criminal case opened on 17 July 2026 in which he was charged with violence against the same woman. Both had been questioned and that case was still under investigation when she was killed. The family's lawyer has described the case as a foreseeable tragedy, and the police have said they will return to questions about what preventive measures were considered.
- Homicide in verona, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A man died in Verona after being beaten during a brawl in Piazza Pradaval on 26 July 2026, in an area covered by a local exclusion order. He suffered severe head trauma from repeated kicks and punches and died twelve days later in the Borgo Trento hospital. The victim was a non-EU national. His age was not reported. The Verona public prosecutor's office, which had initially treated the case as aggravated assault, reclassified the investigation as homicide after his death. No arrests had been made at the time of the cited report. Investigators are reconstructing the incident from high-definition municipal surveillance footage and other video recordings.
- Homicide in rees, DE
· Charged · 3 sources
A 35-year-old Dutch man from Enschede was found dead in a hotel room in Rees, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at midday on Sunday 26 July 2026. He had checked into the hotel the previous day and did not leave his room on time; hotel staff found him lifeless inside. The circumstances of the discovery led police to suspect a violent crime, and the Kleve public prosecutor's office together with the Krefeld and Kleve police opened an investigation and set up a murder commission. The victim had a muscle disease, used a wheelchair and depended on help for many daily activities. His wallet and his car were missing. A 42-year-old Dutch man was provisionally arrested near his home in the Netherlands during the night of Tuesday 28 July 2026; the victim's car was recovered at his address. On the application of the Kleve public prosecutor's office, a judge at Kleve district court issued an arrest warrant for murder in conjunction with robbery resulting in death, and a European arrest warrant was issued on that basis. Extradition proceedings are under way.
- Homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 2 sources
A van was driven into a crowd of people shortly after 22:00 on 25 July 2026 in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, on the fringes of the Christopher Street Day gathering that had taken place in the city that day. A woman was killed and 29 other people were injured, several of them seriously. The remainder of the CSD programme was called off. Berlin police issued a public wanted notice for the driver, who fled the scene and was described as armed and dangerous, and set up a witness hotline and an online reporting portal. No arrest or charge had been reported at the time of the cited sources, and the investigation into the motive was continuing.
- Homicide in stockholm, SE
· Alleged · 1 source
A 26-year-old man was shot dead in Hässelby, in the western part of Stockholm, shortly before 8pm on Friday 24 July 2026. There were many people in the area at the time, and a witness reported hearing five shots. The victim worked at a school in the district, which began extensive crisis support after the killing. Four people were being held on remand by mid-August 2026, all on probable-cause suspicion of murder and aggravated weapons offences: a 19-year-old man and three boys aged 17, 16 and 15. The fourth, the 17-year-old, was ordered detained in his absence on 4 August, arrested the following week and remanded on 10 August; he had no previous convictions. The prosecutor said the investigation remained at an early stage and was far from complete, declined to describe the roles of individual suspects or to discuss a motive, and said that whether the killing was linked to gang crime was among the questions being investigated.
- Homicide in camarate, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 40-year-old man was shot in the back in the early hours of 24 July 2026 in Camarate, in the municipality of Loures north of Lisbon. The emergency alert was received at 00:45. Volunteer firefighters from Camarate and a medical emergency team from Hospital de São José found him already in cardiorespiratory arrest; resuscitation attempts were discontinued without any return of spontaneous circulation, and his death was declared at the scene. His body was transferred to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Lisbon at 05:50. The PSP responded first and the Polícia Judiciária has taken over the investigation. No suspect has been identified and no arrest has been reported.
- Homicide in glasgow, GB
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 44-year-old man was found seriously injured in the close of a block of flats on Burgher Street, in the Parkhead area of the east end of Glasgow, at about 3pm on Friday 24 July 2026. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police Scotland launched a murder investigation led by the Major Investigation Team. Detectives have appealed for witnesses and asked anyone in the Burgher Street or Parkhead Cross area on the day, or in the days before, to come forward and to check private CCTV and dash-cam footage. No arrest has been reported and enquiries into the full circumstances are continuing.
- Homicide in quartu sant'elena, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 39-year-old man shot two members of his family at dawn on 23 July 2026 in the hinterland of Cagliari, in Sardinia. At around 05:45 the carabinieri operations room in Quartu Sant'Elena was alerted by the emergency medical service to a 47-year-old woman, the suspect's wife, who had been shot in the head in the coastal village of Solanas; the gunman left the scene by car. A second call at about 06:10 reported a further shooting in the Margine Rosso district of Quartu Sant'Elena, where his 42-year-old brother was found dead at their parents' home, killed by a gunshot to the torso. At about 06:15 the suspect, a Cagliari man who held firearms legally, presented himself at a carabinieri barracks and stated that he had shot his wife and his brother. The woman was taken to hospital in a critical condition and survived. Investigators' initial reconstruction points to family conflict as the motive.
- Homicide in leicester, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
A 24-year-old man died after being stabbed in De Montfort Place, off London Road, in Leicester on 22 July 2026. Four men, aged 18, 19, 20 and 21, have been charged with murder. All four also face one count of having an imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and one count of possession of a knife or bladed article in a public place. A fifth man, aged 21, has been charged with assisting an offender. All five were due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on 27 July 2026. Leicestershire Police said a 33-year-old man who had been arrested on suspicion of murder was released with no further action. Two men aged 52 and two women aged 43, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, were released on bail.
- Homicide in nijmegen, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A young man was shot shortly after 22:00 on 21 July 2026 on the Graafseweg in Nijmegen, just outside the area hosting the Vierdaagsefeesten, while large crowds were in the city. Ambulances and a trauma helicopter were sent to the scene, and the victim — an 18-year-old man from Rotterdam — died in hospital a short time later. Police cordoned off the site for forensic examination and appealed for witnesses. An 18-year-old man from Rotterdam was arrested the following night on suspicion of involvement, but was subsequently released and is no longer treated as a suspect. No one has been charged, and the circumstances of the shooting remain under investigation.
- Homicide in bari sardo, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 19-year-old man was stabbed to death at around 18:00 on 21 July 2026 at a sports ground in Bari Sardo, in the Ogliastra province of Sardinia. According to the account carabinieri from Lanusei consider most likely, he drove his car to the ground and deliberately struck a 21-year-old woman with whom he had previously had a relationship, throwing her violently against a planter. She was airlifted to hospital in Cagliari with trauma to both legs and survived. The woman's younger brother, a minor, and her current boyfriend were at the ground and gave chase. When they caught up with the car, the brother is reported to have opened the driver's door and a struggle followed in which the driver was stabbed several times. Emergency medical crews, including a helicopter, could not save him and he died about ten minutes after they reached him. Both suspects fled; the boyfriend was traced and questioned the same evening, and investigators believe the knife was his although he is not thought to have struck the blows. The minor had not been located, and searches of both homes had been carried out. Witnesses gave carabinieri and the prosecutor two versions of events, and the sequence remains under investigation.
- Homicide in athina, GR
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 73-year-old man, a well-known criminal defence lawyer, was found dead on the evening of 21 July 2026 in his office in central Athens, on Odos 3is Septemvriou, which he also used as a residence. Relatives who had been unable to reach him during the day went to the building, and the caretaker let them in and found him in the bedroom. Police were alerted shortly after 22:00 and sealed the scene for forensic examination; investigators place the time of death in the morning hours of the same day. He was found naked on the bedroom floor in a foetal position in a pool of blood. No weapon was used: he had sustained a rain of blows to the head from fists and possibly kicks, along with impact against a hard surface. His clothes were laid on chairs and there were no signs of the disturbance or searching that would suggest a robbery motive. Authorities are treating the death as a criminal act, and the homicide division has taken over the preliminary investigation. No suspect has been identified.
- Homicide in benahavís, ES
· Charged · 3 sources
A 45-year-old woman was found dead with signs of violence on the morning of 21 July 2026 in a residential development in the Los Arqueros area of Benahavís, in the province of Málaga. A neighbour alerted the 112 emergency service at around 09:50, reporting a loud scream, a large amount of blood, and a man leaving the scene hurriedly in a car. Medical and police units could only confirm her death at the scene. An initial examination found a knife wound to the neck, which investigators believe may be the cause of death, pending an autopsy and forensic report. The Guardia Civil has taken charge of the investigation and mounted an operation to locate a man over his possible connection to the victim and to the killing; The victim, a foreign national, had been registered in the VioGén gender-violence protection system, though her case was no longer active. Authorities are treating the death as a suspected case of gender-based violence. A man who had been in a relationship with the victim between 2018 and 2020 was subsequently arrested and remanded in custody over the killing. On 6 August 2026 the Guardia Civil disclosed that, before confessing to police, he had admitted to being the author of the crime in a personal diary.
- Homicide in barcelona, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A man was stabbed on the Barceloneta seafront in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona in the early hours of 21 July 2026, and later died of his injuries in hospital. Police were called to a fight at around 3:25am and found the victim with a stab wound. Some reporting places the attack more precisely at Somorrostro beach. No perpetrator has been identified. The Catalan police criminal investigation division has taken over the case to establish the circumstances of the death and is investigating whether third parties were involved.
- Homicide in vuhred, SI
· Charged · 1 source
A 36-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Vuhred, in the Drava valley of north-eastern Slovenia, in the early hours of 20 July 2026. She died at the scene and was found by her son on his return home. Her partner, a 39-year-old man and a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, fled on foot after the killing, swam across the Drava and spent the day hiding in a series of hard-to-reach locations. A large police operation involving criminal investigators, dog handlers, a drone, mounted officers and a helicopter crew searched for him, and he was arrested at about 23:20 that night in front of a residential building, having returned to the area. He did not resist arrest. On 22 July he was brought before an investigating judge on a criminal complaint of murder, and detention was ordered. Police stated that the offence was committed in a cruel and treacherous manner, a qualification that carries a minimum sentence of fifteen years' imprisonment.
- Homicide in chojna, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
A woman was killed in Chojna, in the Gryfino district of West Pomerania, and her body was found at around 10:00 on Monday 20 July 2026. Officers from the prevention division, tracker dogs and drones were deployed in the search for the suspect, with support from officers in Szczecin. Her 19-year-old son was detained as the probable perpetrator less than three hours after the body was found. According to reporting from the scene, the killing is believed to have arisen from family disputes. The case has been taken over by the district prosecutor's office in Gryfino. No charge decision has been reported.
- Homicide in edinburgh, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
A 44-year-old woman was found with serious injuries at a house on Craigievar Square in Edinburgh on the evening of 20 July 2026 and was pronounced dead at the scene. A 46-year-old man, her former partner, was charged with her murder and appeared in court on 23 July 2026. On the morning of 26 July 2026 the accused was found dead at HMP Edinburgh. Police Scotland said there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding that death and that a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal. No court disposal of the murder charge has been reported. On 30 July 2026 the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner announced an investigation into the circumstances leading to the death, following police contact with the victim before the killing. A report on that investigation is to be submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
- Homicide in belfast, GB
· Charged · 1 source
A 44-year-old man was seriously injured in an attack inside Eithne House on Duncairn Parade, in the New Lodge area of north Belfast, on Monday 20 July 2026. He was taken to hospital and died there of his injuries two days later. A 41-year-old man appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Friday 24 July charged with the murder. A police officer told the court she could connect him to the charges; there was no application for bail and he was remanded into custody. Two other men, aged 40 and 32, who had been arrested earlier in the week on suspicion of attempted murder, were released unconditionally.
- Homicide in stockholm, SE
· Alleged · 1 source
A man in his forties died after falling from a third-floor balcony in Hässelby, in western Stockholm, on 19 July 2026. He was taken by ambulance to hospital with life-threatening injuries and was treated there; police confirmed on the Monday that he had died. Police are investigating the death as murder. Two people — a man in his fifties and a woman in her forties — were arrested in connection with the incident in the same building where it occurred. No charge decision has been reported.
- Homicide in cervia, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 54-year-old man was beaten to death in the car park of viale Tritone at Pinarella di Cervia, on the Ravenna coast, during the night of 18–19 July 2026. He was living in a camper van parked there. According to the investigators' reconstruction, he was confronted in the car park near his camper van, tried to get away, and was caught and struck repeatedly with kicks and punches to the head and chest, including after he was already on the ground. He managed to move a few metres before collapsing beside the tyre of a lorry. Carabinieri who had been called to the area on the morning of 19 July over damage to a nearby camper van found him lying seriously injured with clear signs of the beating. He was taken to the Bufalini hospital in Cesena, where he died of his injuries on 22 July. On 7 August 2026 four young people aged between 19 and 23, from the Forlì area, were detained and taken to prison, accused of aggravated joint homicide committed for futile motives. Investigators reached them through footage from public and private CCTV cameras and from a lorry's dash cam, cross-checked with police databases, witness statements, wiretaps and surveillance. No prior connection between the group and the victim has emerged, and the motive is still to be established. The investigation, coordinated by the Ravenna prosecutor's office, is not concluded. The municipality has said it intends to join any trial as a civil party.
- Homicide in bologna, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 42-year-old man died on the morning of 19 July 2026 in via Svevo, in the Pilastro district of Bologna, during a police intervention prompted by reports of a man causing a disturbance in a garage. Officers used pepper spray and then restrained him face down on the ground with his wrists and ankles bound. Video footage circulated afterwards records him calling out for help before losing consciousness; he died during or immediately after the restraint. A Bologna prosecutor has opened an investigation into the death as negligent homicide and police body-camera footage has been made available to it, while the local health authority has begun an internal inquiry. The two police officers who carried out the restraint have been formally registered as suspects, and the position of four Red Cross volunteers who intervened after the immobilisation is also being assessed. An autopsy was carried out on 24 July: a CT scan showed the lungs full of blood and the examination recorded compression of the body without significant bone fractures, but the medical examiner described the examination as very complex and said further test results must be awaited. Whether the compression occurred before death or during attempted resuscitation has not been established, and no cause of death has been formally certified. The victim's relatives have publicly alleged that he was beaten and killed, and a parliamentary inquiry has been announced.
- Homicide in eboli, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
The victim, a 53-year-old male sports journalist, was found dead in an agricultural field in the Cioffi district of Eboli, in the province of Salerno, on the morning of 19 July 2026, close to the Strada Statale 7 bis. Firefighters called to a blaze at the site extinguished the fire and discovered the body, which had been burned; carabinieri, forensic officers and the duty prosecutor attended before dawn. An autopsy was carried out on 22 July, and investigators have not yet established whether the body was set alight before or after death. In the early hours of 25 July, carabinieri from Salerno, supported by the ROS technical investigations unit and the Puglia hunter squadron, located a man they consider responsible for the killing hiding in an abandoned farmhouse and placed him under a fermo, a pre-charge precautionary detention order. The investigation is coordinated by the Salerno prosecutor's office, which is reported to be treating a private motive as the main line of inquiry.
- Homicide in lisboa, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old man was beaten to death with an iron bar on 17 July 2026 on Rua do Alvito, in the Alcântara district of Lisbon. According to reporting on the investigation, he was attacked without warning after intervening to stop a robbery at a construction site, and the fatal blows were concentrated on his head. A colleague managed to escape and gave investigators an account of the attack. The suspect fled on foot and remains at large. Investigators describe him as an assailant already known to the PSP who operates in that part of the city. The Polícia Judiciária has opened urgent inquiries given the alarm the killing caused locally, and has not ruled out the involvement of accomplices, although no evidence currently supports that.
- Homicide in palermo, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 69-year-old man, was fatally stabbed on Via Papa Giovanni XXIII in the Bonagia neighborhood of Palermo during a dispute between neighbors. Emergency responders attempted resuscitation without success. The suspect fled and remains at large; police have launched a manhunt.
- Homicide in modena, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a man in his early-to-mid 30s, was fatally stabbed and found in the entrance hall of a condominium on Via Tignale del Garda in Modena; he did not live in the building. Residents heard a quarrel around 5am and discovered the body, alerting authorities. Carabinieri are questioning a woman who lives in the condominium; no arrest or charges have been made. A drug-related motive has not been ruled out but is unconfirmed.
- Homicide in aalborg, DK
· Charged · 3 sources
A 62-year-old man was fatally shot at an address in Nørresundby, a district of Aalborg, on the afternoon of July 17. Police, responding to reports of a fire, were fired on by the suspect and returned fire; a police officer was also shot and wounded but survived. The following day, a 48-year-old man was charged with the murder and with gross violence against the officer; the attempted-murder charge relating to the officer was later downgraded after the suspect denied intent to kill. At a preliminary court hearing, the suspect said he could not remember the events but confirmed he was at the scene and said he "could not bear any more" and had wanted to take his own life. He was remanded in custody for four weeks.
- Homicide in athina, GR
· Alleged · 1 source
A 38-year-old British woman was killed in the Kypseli district of Athens in mid-July 2026. She had arrived in Greece on 26 June and initially stayed with friends in the Piraeus area. On 2 July she was given the keys to an apartment in the Exarcheia district by a friend; the suspect also had keys to the same flat. Her last phone contact with someone in her circle of friends was on 15 July, after which investigators believe messages sent from her phone saying she wanted to be left alone were an attempt to mislead. Her remains were later recovered from an abandoned location on Evelpidon Street and identified by fingerprints. Security-camera footage obtained by investigators shows the suspect walking through central Athens carrying a suitcase, which police believe contained her body; officers noted that his manner appeared calm and unremarkable, resembling that of an ordinary traveller. Analysis of mobile-phone data placed her handset in Arachova, where the suspect had travelled. A 26-year-old Afghan man has been charged with homicide, robbery and violation of weapons legislation, and is reported to have confessed.
- Homicide in kelkheim, DE
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 58-year-old woman, was killed with a machete by the suspect, her 60-year-old husband, in a public area of Kelkheim on the evening of July 14, in view of witnesses. She suffered fatal injuries to the head, neck, and torso at the scene. According to the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office, the couple had been married since 1991 and had lived separately for about three years; the victim had asked for a divorce in 2025, which the suspect reportedly refused to accept. An investigating judge at the Frankfurt district court issued an arrest warrant against the suspect on suspicion of murder.
- Homicide in göteborg, SE
· Alleged · 1 source
A man in his 40s died from injuries after an assault at a bathing area near Göteborg. Reporting said three young men were detained as suspects.
- Homicide in toulon, FR
· Charged · 1 source
A man was shot dead in Toulon, in the Var, during the week of 13 to 19 July 2026. He and his attacker had argued beforehand and had arranged to meet through social media. The attacker waited at a concealed position and fired twice at the victim's car as it arrived at the agreed place; one round struck the driver in the head, and the vehicle crashed. Emergency services took him to the nearest hospital in a critical condition, where he died shortly afterwards. Several witnesses told French police they had seen the suspect carrying a firearm near the scene. The gunman fled. French investigators established that people close to him had given him money and driven him by road to Barcelona so that he could leave the European Union as soon as possible. The Toulon public prosecutor's office issued an international arrest order on the day of the killing, and French authorities issued a European Arrest and Surrender Order and asked the Spanish National Police for assistance. Officers from the fugitives group of the provincial judicial police brigade placed the hotel where he was believed to be staying under surveillance and arrested him there on 24 July 2026. A Barcelona court ordered his immediate surrender to France, where the offence carries a sentence of life imprisonment.
- Homicide in crema, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 19-year-old man died after being stabbed in Crema. Authorities stopped three young suspects, who were traced between the provinces of Cremona and Milan.
- Homicide in hayes, GB
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 24-year-old woman, was fatally stabbed at a property on Uxbridge Road, Hayes, west London on 12 July. A second victim, a man in his 20s, was found outside the property with stab injuries and survived. A 44-year-old suspect matching the attacker's description was arrested nearby on suspicion of murder and possession of a bladed article; he was hospitalized with injuries believed to have been sustained jumping from a window.
- Homicide in hamburg, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
A missing 15-year-old girl was found dead with multiple injuries in an apartment in Hamburg-Bramfeld. Police provisionally arrested the victim's 43-year-old mother, who did not have custody.
- Homicide in bologna, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
An 86-year-old woman was fatally shot in a home on via Shakespeare in Bologna. Reporting described the case as an apparent homicide-suicide in which the suspect, her 81-year-old husband, then shot himself.
- Homicide in torino, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 36-year-old woman of Romanian origin was killed on the night of 9–10 July 2026 in her apartment in the Barriera di Milano district of Turin. She had moved there with her young son after the end of her relationship with the suspect. Her body was found in the apartment on the evening of 20 July, wrapped in a sheet and hidden inside the storage compartment of the bed, after a friend who had not heard from her for about ten days entered the flat using the landlord's keys and called police on noticing a strong smell. The autopsy attributed death to severe cranial polytrauma and violent compression of the mouth and neck, consistent with mechanical asphyxiation, and placed it roughly ten days before the body was found. On 5 August 2026 police arrested the victim's former partner, a 45-year-old Romanian man who was already under investigation. He is held to be strongly implicated in aggravated domestic abuse, femicide and concealment of a corpse. According to witnesses, the suspect had continued to monitor the victim after the relationship ended.
- Homicide in santadi, IT
· Alleged · 4 sources
A 35-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed at dawn in a rural area on the outskirts of Santadi (Sulcis, Sardinia), about 60 km from Cagliari. Investigators are working on the theory that the killing followed a quarrel between the victim and the suspect that escalated. A suspect was taken to the carabinieri barracks for questioning; forensic specialists from Cagliari were sent to examine the scene.
- Homicide in paris, FR
· Alleged · 1 source
A young man, about 20 years old, was fatally stabbed in the heart on a street in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, on boulevard Ornano, shortly before 9 p.m. following a dispute with the suspect. The suspect fled the scene and was being actively sought by police.
- Homicide in torrevieja, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A man's body was found with signs of violence, apparently caused by a bladed weapon, inside a home on a residential development in Torrevieja, Alicante province, on 10 July 2026. Guardia Civil officers from the Torrevieja station attended along with judicial police specialists from the provincial command and forensic examiners, who inspected the scene. The body was taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Alicante after a judicial commission authorised its removal. One person was detained the same day in connection with the discovery. The investigation is ongoing.
- Homicide in loreto, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 33-year-old factory worker, was stabbed multiple times at her home in Loreto (Ancona) by her husband during a violent argument, around 10 p.m. The couple's young son was at his maternal grandmother's house and unharmed. The suspect turned himself in at the carabinieri barracks in nearby Porto Recanati, covered in blood, and confessed to the killing. No prior violence or social-services involvement had been recorded for the family.
- Homicide in wandsworth, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
The victim, a man, is believed to have come to harm at a property in Wandsworth on 9 July; his body was later found inside a suitcase in a wooded area at Borstal Recreation Ground, Rochester, Kent. Two men known to the victim were arrested; one has been charged with murder and preventing a lawful burial, the other with preventing a lawful burial. A third man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been bailed.
- Homicide in corsico, IT
· Alleged · 4 sources
A 40-year-old man was killed on 8 July 2026 in his flat on the eighth floor of a residential block in Corsico, a comune on the south-western edge of Milan. According to investigators he was strangled with a scarf, which broke his neck, and stabbed six times. A 39-year-old man was detained on suspicion of the killing and is held at San Vittore prison in Milan. Investigators say his genetic profile was found on two knives at the scene and in blood traces in the bathroom, and that a palm print left in blood on a glass door of the flat matched his. The two men had had an intimate relationship, and the killing is alleged to have taken place during a dispute. The suspect had been detained two days earlier after threatening volunteers of a street-aid charity with a knife, and is said to have breached a court-ordered residence ban to reach the victim's home. He has not yet been formally charged.
- Homicide in argos, GR
· Charged · 2 sources
The victim, a 20-year-old man on the autism spectrum with a certified disability, was shot in the head by two police officers during a car pursuit in Argos in the early hours of 8 July, after abandoning his vehicle and attempting to flee on foot; he died four days later in intensive care. Shell casings recovered at the scene numbered fewer than the shots reportedly visible on video evidence. The two officers were charged and remanded in custody after testifying; both deny intent to kill and describe the shots as warning fire. The shooting prompted protests, including a demonstration planned in Thessaloniki.
- Homicide in haytor vale, GB
· Charged · 1 source
A 78-year-old woman, a former Member of Parliament and party spokesperson, was found dead with serious injuries by the ambulance service at her home in Haytor Vale, on Dartmoor in Devon, at 11:40 on 9 July 2026. Devon and Cornwall Police said they believed she had been attacked the previous day at around 12:30. On 20 July the Crown Prosecution Service announced that a 28-year-old man from Rotherham had been charged with her murder and would appear at Westminster magistrates' court. The chief crown prosecutor of the CPS special crime and counter-terrorism division said the decision to prosecute followed a police investigation into the death, and that inquiries into the defendant's motives were continuing, including a possible political or terrorist motivation.
- Homicide in sanremo, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
La vittima è stata trovata morta nella sua casa a Sanremo. Il figlio è stato sottoposto a fermo per omicidio al termine di un lungo interrogatorio. Le indagini sono coordinate dalla procura di Imperia.
- Homicide in bedford, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
A mother and her two young daughters were found dead at a property near Bedford. A murder investigation was launched by Bedfordshire police, who said the suspect, known to the victims, was believed to have fled the country. He was later arrested in South Africa following an international manhunt involving UK, Zimbabwean, and South African authorities, and the Crown Prosecution Service authorised three counts of murder against him. He was remanded in custody in South Africa pending extradition to the UK.
- Homicide in torino, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Il corpo dell'uomo è stato trovato in casa a Torino, in avanzato stato di decomposizione, con una ferita al cranio. I carabinieri indagano per omicidio. La vittima potrebbe essere stata colpita con un oggetto contundente.
- Homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
Patient in einer Klinik in Berlin-Neukölln getötet
- Homicide in uppsala, SE
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 19-year-old male victim was shot and killed in the Kvarngärdet neighbourhood of Uppsala on a Sunday evening. A boy under 18 was arrested shortly afterward and remanded in custody on probable cause, suspected of murder. During the following week, two more people were held in connection with the case: one suspected of complicity to murder, and one suspected of obstruction of justice.
- Homicide in palermo, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Omicidio a Palermo: un uomo accoltellato mortalmente in un appartamento di via Sampolo
- Homicide in napoli, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Sparatoria notturna a Napoli, vittima colpita da un colpo d'arma da fuoco in zona Porta Capuana
- Homicide in rotterdam, NL
· Alleged · 1 source
Bij een schietpartij in het centrum van Rotterdam is een man overleden. Het incident gebeurde rond 05.30 uur op het kruispunt van de Nieuwe Binnenweg en de Mathenesserlaan. De man raakte zwaargewond, werd ter plekke gereanimeerd, en is daarna overleden. De politie heeft zeven mensen aangehouden en onderzoekt wat hun rol was.
- Homicide in vieste, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Omicidio a Vieste (Foggia): la vittima colpita a fucilate in località Defensola, indagini affidate alla DDA di Bari
- Homicide in mulhuddart, IE
· Charged · 1 source
The victim was attacked near his home in Mulhuddart, west Dublin, on 3 July and died in hospital two days later. A 43-year-old suspect has appeared in court charged with murder and was remanded in custody.
- Homicide in barcelona, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A minor was shot and killed at Parque de La Pegaso in Barcelona on Thursday night; a man was arrested for the murder.
- Homicide in malmö, SE
· Alleged · 3 sources
En man sköts ihjäl i Västra hamnen i Malmö sent på onsdagskvällen. – Mannens liv gick inte att rädda och han dödförklarades strax efter ankomsten till sjukhuset, säger vakthavande befäl vid polisen.
- Homicide in venlo, NL
· Alleged · 1 source
Een 56-jarige man uit Venlo is donderdag na een steekpartij overleden aan zijn verwondingen, meldt de politie. Een 55-jarige vrouw uit dezelfde Limburgse stad is opgepakt en zit momenteel vast voor verhoor.
- Homicide in civitanova marche, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
La sospettata 34enne è in carcere, indagata per l'omicidio di un uomo di 62 anni. La procura non ritiene credibile la tesi della legittima difesa: sul corpo sono stati riscontrati segni di una coltellata al braccio e due lesioni al cranio. Attesa per l'autopsia.
- Homicide in amadora, PT
· Alleged · 1 source
Ministério Público acusa the suspect de ter assassinado the victim com um bloco de cimento, na Amadora.
- Homicide in thessaloniki, GR
· Charged · 1 source
An incendiary device was placed in the family car outside a home in Thessaloniki. The resulting fire fatally injured the mother of the household and injured her daughter, the father, and two other residents of the building. Following an Antiterrorist Service investigation using security-camera footage, three suspects — two men aged 29 and 24, and a woman aged 26 — were arrested and brought before the prosecutor on charges including intentional homicide.
- Homicide in toulouse, FR
· Alleged · 1 source
Les secours sont intervenus au domicile d'une femme âgée d'une cinquantaine d'années à la demande de sa famille, sans nouvelles d'elle.
- Homicide in toulon, FR
· Charged · 2 sources
A-t-on affaire à une famille de serial killers ? Une mère et ses deux fils sont soupçonnés d'avoir tué deux militaires à Toulon, dans le Var. Ils ont été mis en examen et placés en détention après la découverte des corps. Ils auraient aussi séquestré sept autres personnes.
- Homicide in kløfta, NO
· Charged · 1 source
A man in his 70s was stabbed to death at a detached house in Kløfta, in Akershus, on 30 June 2026. His son was charged with the killing and has admitted stabbing him, but claims he acted in self-defence. On 5 August 2026 the suspect was released from pre-trial custody after the Supreme Court rejected the prosecution's appeal against release, against the wishes of the prosecuting authority. He remains charged and is subject to a visitation ban pending trial. The appeal court had found a very strong probability that the killing was intentional rather than lawful self-defence. A surviving brother of the accused reacted strongly to the release.
- Homicide in bari, IT
· Charged · 4 sources
AGI - Omicidio a Bari. Un uomo di 38 anni, the victim, è stato ucciso questa mattina in via De Marinis, nel quartiere Carbonara del capoluogo pugliese. Arrestato l'autore dell'omicidio a Bari L’uomo era in bici quando è stato raggiunto da almeno un colpo d’arma da fuoco che non gli ha lasciato scampo. L'autore dell’omicidio è stato arrestato dopo poco, mentre stava raggiungendo la Questu
- Homicide in malmö, SE
· Alleged · 1 source
Polis larmades under måndagen till en bostad på Värnhem i Malmö där en kvinna anträffats död. En förundersökning om mord har inletts.
- Homicide in reggio emilia, IT
· Charged · 7 sources
Ferita in modo grave la sorella dell'imprenditore. L'omicida si era dato alla fuga. Motivo dell'aggressione, aver negato delle pizze gratis. Fonti successive riferiscono l'arresto del presunto autore.
- Homicide in stade, DE
· Alleged · 4 sources
Der 45 Jahre alte Mann, der am Montag in Stade sechs Menschen erschossen haben soll, hat die Tat offenbar vorbereitet. Nach NDR-Recherchen kaufte der Verdächtige eine Woche zuvor die Tatwaffe in Berlin.
- Homicide in narbonne, FR
· Charged · 1 source
Un jeune de 17 ans confié à l'aide sociale à l'enfance est décédé après avoir été battu à mort lors d'un guet-apens. Cinq jeunes hommes âgés de 16 à 20 ans ont été mis en examen pour assassinat dans cette affaire.
- Homicide in nantes, FR
· Alleged · 1 source
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- Homicide in kassel, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
Ein Mann wurde in Kassel getötet. Nach Angaben der Quelle wurde nach dem jüngeren Bruder gefahndet.
- Homicide in roma, IT
· Alleged · 10 sources
Orrore nella capitale, sterminata una famiglia probabilmente con una mannaia. Ferito il figlio 20enne. Una fonte successiva riferisce che il presunto autore era ancora in fuga e che le autopsie erano previste in settimana.
- Homicide in nocera inferiore, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Diverse contraddizioni nel racconto del presunto femminicida, che però ribadisce la sua innocenza. A insospettire i carabinieri alcuni segni riscontrati sul corpo della donna
- Homicide in ceriana, IT
· Charged · 3 sources
AGI - Una donna di circa cinquant'anni è stata trovata morta nella sua casa di Ceriana, nell'Imperiese. Il compagno si è costituito, raccontando ai carabinieri di averla soffocata con un cuscino. Una fonte successiva riferisce un trasferimento in ospedale dopo una minaccia di suicidio in carcere.
- Homicide in firenze, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Lucca, convalidato l’arresto dopo che ha sparato con il fucile a moglie e figlio. L’uomo si giustifica: “Ero depresso e in ansia”. La pm gli contesta la premeditazione. Il ragazzo era stato ricoverato in psichiatria per tre giorno dopo il litigio di inizio giugno
- Homicide in bucurești, RO
· Charged · 1 source
Un bărbat în vârstă de 40 de ani, recidivist, a fost reţinut, luni, de procurorii Parchetului de pe lângă Tribunalul Bucureşti, după ce ar fi omorât un bărbat pe o stradă din Sectorul 2 din București.
- Homicide in lomazzo, IT
· Charged · 2 sources
Un uomo di 72 anni è morto nel rogo del suo appartamento a Lomazzo nella notte tra il 24 e il 25 giugno. Un vicino è stato arrestato per omicidio volontario; secondo le fonti, l'ipotesi investigativa riguarda una ritorsione dopo una denuncia per furto.
- Homicide in napoli, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Il 21enne ucciso. La vittima, 'ogni volta muore una speranza per il futuro'
- Homicide in groningen, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
De 15-jarige die wordt verdacht van de dubbele moord op diens ouders in Meerstad blijft in elk geval nog negentig dagen vastzitten. Dat heeft de raadkamer van de rechtbank in Groningen besloten. De verdachte werd op 18 juni aangehouden, kort nadat de politie de lichamen van de ouders levenloos had aangetroffen in hun huis. De politie drong die nacht de woning binnen, nadat er alarm was geslagen do
- Homicide in biała podlaska, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
The victim, a Russian dissident artist and satirist who had sought political asylum in Poland, was shot multiple times at his residence in Biała Podlaska. The suspect, arrested days later, has declined to confess or make statements. A court has upheld his pre-trial detention, citing flight risk and the severity of the charges; investigators are examining whether the killing was commissioned by a foreign intelligence service.
- Homicide in milano, IT
· Charged · 2 sources
Un interprete di 65 anni è stato ucciso a Milano dopo un incontro a pagamento. Un diciannovenne è stato fermato e ha confessato il pestaggio mortale.
- Homicide in san stino di livenza, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 52-year-old secondary-school teacher, was stabbed to death at her home in San Stino di Livenza (Venezia) on 11 June 2026. The suspect is her 17-year-old nephew. Her funeral on 3 July 2026 drew a large crowd, and the mayor declared a day of mourning for the town.
- Homicide in sheffield, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
Detectives have said the victim was simply an innocent bystander after she was fatally shot near the One Four One bar on West Street in Sheffield.
- Homicide in waterford, IE
· Charged · 1 source
A 43-year-old woman was killed at her home in the Grange Heights housing estate in Waterford city on 27 April 2026. She was discovered with serious injuries at the house that evening. A 39-year-old man has been charged with her murder and with assault causing harm arising from the same incident. On 3 July 2026 the Director of Public Prosecutions consented to his being sent forward to the Central Criminal Court, and on 4 August 2026 he was formally returned for trial.
- Homicide in foggia, IT
· Charged · 1 source
A 46-year-old woman was killed on 23 April 2026 in her home in Foggia, in Apulia. Her husband, a 48-year-old security guard, is in custody accused of femicide. The victim had been active in campaigning against gender-based violence. Three months after her death her children wrote an open letter to the Italian prime minister saying they felt abandoned by the state, having applied for the statutory compensation available to the families of femicide victims and received no reply.
- Homicide in covo, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Two men, aged 47 and 48, were shot dead on 17 April 2026 outside a Sikh cultural centre in Covo, in the province of Bergamo. A third man was wounded in the same shooting and survived. According to reporting on the investigation, a man arrived at the site by car, approached a group of his compatriots and opened fire. Investigators attribute the ambush to a conflict within the local Sikh community over control and management of the cultural centre. A 29-year-old suspect fled Italy after the shooting and, having hidden in France, was traced to England. He was arrested in Birmingham on 23 July 2026 and is being held in custody in the United Kingdom pending extradition to Italy.
- Homicide in hoofddorp, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A woman was killed on 15 April 2026 at a house on the Liesbos in Hoofddorp, where she lived with the suspect. At a preliminary hearing the public prosecutor set out that she had been stabbed in the head and neck with a knife and that her throat had been cut. A lawyer for her family described the case as a clear instance of femicide and said the suspect had isolated her from those around her. A 34-year-old man was arrested near the house shortly after the killing and is being held in pre-trial detention in a penitentiary psychiatric centre. He did not attend the preliminary hearing held at the district court in Alkmaar on 27 July 2026, at which the charges against him were read out. Two of the victim's sisters heard the details of the charge for the first time in open court; the public prosecutor apologised to the family's lawyer for the way that happened. The next hearing is scheduled for 12 October 2026.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A 54-year-old man was stabbed to death on the Tugelaweg in Amsterdam-Oost at about 10pm on Tuesday 14 April 2026. Emergency services attempted to resuscitate him, but he died at the scene. A group of students drinking outside nearby witnessed the attack. A 38-year-old Amsterdam man was arrested and remains in pre-trial detention. At a preliminary hearing in August 2026 his lawyer argued for his release, saying there was a major lack of evidence that his client carried out the stabbing; the suspect denies it and says he did not know the victim. The next hearing was set for 20 October 2026. The prosecution alleges that the stabbing followed an argument at a café on the Krugerplein over a debt of 400 euro, during which the suspect was struck by the victim. According to the prosecution, the victim was then run down by a Canta microcar as he fled and stabbed at least twice in the neck.
- Homicide in zagreb, HR
· Alleged · 1 source
A 22-year-old man was shot dead in a house in Zagreb's Šestine neighbourhood. Police later said a minor suspect fired multiple shots with intent to kill and was arrested in connection with the homicide.
- Homicide in leicester, GB
· On trial · 1 source
the suspect put the victim in the recovery position and left the park
- Homicide in mannheim, DE
· Charged · 1 source
A 19-year-old woman was beaten to death in the Käfertaler Wald near Mannheim in the early hours of 11 March 2026. Her body was found by a walker later that day, and a 17-year-old was arrested the same day and remanded in custody. In August 2026 the Mannheim public prosecutor's office charged him with her murder, alleging that he killed her out of jealousy. According to the charge, the suspect struck the victim in the face and head more than a dozen times with his fist in a wooded area near Mannheim, then struck her at least forty times with tree branches as she lay on the ground. The prosecution says he had come to suspect her of infidelity and considered himself dishonoured by remarks she had made, and that he decided to kill her after she repeatedly told him she wanted to end the relationship.
- Homicide in zhelyazno, BG
· Charged · 1 source
A two-month-old boy died in the village of Zhelyazno, in Plovdiv Province, with his death reported to the authorities on 26 February 2026. His father, a 28-year-old man from the same village, was charged with the intentional murder of the infant, who was described in the indictment as having been in a helpless state. The defendant appeared before the Plovdiv Regional Court on 29 July 2026 for a preparatory hearing. He entered the courtroom with his head bowed and said nothing as he was escorted by guards. The hearing was adjourned to 9 September 2026 because some of the injured parties had not been summoned.
- Homicide in lyon, FR
· Charged · 2 sources
A far-right activist was fatally injured in Lyon on 12 February 2026 during violent confrontations between two groups on the margins of a conference given by a left-wing MEP at the city's Sciences Po campus. He died of his injuries two days later. Video of the confrontation published by a national weekly on 17 February shows two groups of about ten people fighting, with a crutch, an umbrella, a tear-gas canister and a smoke flare used. Nine people have been placed under judicial examination in the investigation into the death — eight for intentional homicide and one, a former parliamentary assistant to a left-wing MP, for complicity in murder by instigation. All nine are in pre-trial detention, and three investigating magistrates are handling the case. In July 2026 two of those charged filed complaints with the Lyon public prosecutor against fifteen far-right activists present on 12 February, alleging premeditated violence committed in a group, with weapons and with concealed faces. That complaint falls under a separate preliminary investigation into the conduct of the far-right group, which is being conducted independently of the homicide investigation. A lawyer for one of the charged men argues the two proceedings are inseparable and that evidence gathered in the preliminary investigation is being withheld from the magistrates investigating the death.
- Homicide in bordighera, IT
· Charged · 6 sources
The victim, a 2-year-old girl, died in Bordighera from acute cerebral hemorrhage caused by a blow to the head sustained within 48 hours of her death. An autopsy also found two additional internal hemorrhages and signs of chronic malnutrition and neglect dating back roughly a year; doctors said she could have survived had an ambulance been called in time. The victim's mother and her partner are in custody, charged with aggravated maltreatment resulting in death; both maintain their innocence. She was found lifeless on 9 February 2026 at her mother's home in Montenero, a hillside district of Bordighera. The child's funeral was held on 14 August 2026 at the church of the Immacolata in Bordighera, attended by hundreds of people and led by the bishop of the Sanremo-Ventimiglia diocese. The victim's mother, initially authorised to attend, was barred the previous day when the investigating judge revoked the permission on grounds of public order and security. The child's biological father, detained in an unrelated case, attended under escort by the prison police.
- Homicide in leicester, GB
· On trial · 1 source
A 20-year-old university student was stabbed to death in Oxford Street, close to De Montfort University's Innovation Centre in Leicester, shortly after 5pm on 3 February 2026. An 18-year-old student at a different Leicester university went on trial for his murder at Leicester Crown Court on 10 August 2026. He denies the charges against him, which also include possessing a bladed article and failing to provide the PIN for his phone. The trial is expected to last three weeks. Opening the prosecution case, counsel for the Crown told the jury that the two men had known each other from online gaming and had fallen out over money the defendant believed he was owed, including over a watch the victim had given him to sell which turned out to be a counterfeit. The Crown alleges the defendant attacked the victim in the street over that perceived debt. The jury was told the encounter lasted seconds and was captured on dashcam footage, that the victim was stabbed five times in the chest, and that one wound, 13cm deep, penetrated his heart and caused his death. Four other chest wounds did not contribute to death and a defensive wound was found on his hand. He collapsed in the street and never regained consciousness. A passing driver stopped to help him.
- Homicide in milano, IT
· Charged · 1 source
A 28-year-old man was shot in the head and killed on 26 January 2026 in the wooded area of Rogoredo, in Milan, a location known for drug dealing. Prosecutors allege the fatal shot was fired from a distance of about 30 metres. A 41-year-old former officer of the Mecenate police precinct is accused of the killing, which prosecutors say took place in the course of an anti-drug-trafficking operation. On 31 July 2026 the Milan prosecutor's office requested that he be sent for immediate trial, skipping the preliminary hearing stage. The accusation carries the aggravating factors of premeditation and abuse of public office, and cites threats the accused is alleged to have made against the victim before the shooting. A separate strand of the investigation concerns alleged extortion and unlawful arrests.
- Homicide in wien, AT
· Charged · 1 source
An 87-year-old woman was killed on 19 January 2026 in her room at a senior residence in the Döbling district of Vienna. According to the indictment, the suspect went to her room, pushed her onto the bed, strangled her and is believed to have suffocated her with a pillow. He is then alleged to have opened the safe in her room and taken the jewellery inside it along with at least 500 euros in cash. The suspect and the victim had known each other for some time. He is reported to have been a regular visitor to the residence, where a relative of his partner lives. From December 2024 onwards he is said to have repeatedly borrowed money from the woman, ending up owing her more than 20,000 euros which, contrary to an agreement between them, he did not repay. The 61-year-old has been charged with murder and is due to stand trial at the Vienna regional court on 13 August 2026.
- Homicide in doneraile, IE
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 21-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of a Cork postman. A 17-year-old boy was separately found guilty of the same murder on 30 July 2026. Victim impact statements are to be heard before he is sentenced.
- Homicide in liverpool, GB
· Alleged · 1 source
A woman of 68 was found with a blunt-force head injury at her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, just after 12.30pm on Saturday 4 October 2025. Merseyside Police opened a murder investigation into her death. A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of her murder in May 2026 and remains on conditional bail. No charge had been brought at the time of the cited report. On 14 August 2026, on what would have been the victim's 69th birthday, her family made a public appeal for anyone with information to contact the police or pass it anonymously to Crimestoppers, which is offering a reward of up to £20,000 for information leading to an arrest. The senior investigating officer said detectives believe the answers lie within the local community and that people with information have not yet come forward.
- Homicide in mäder, AT
· Acquitted · 1 source
A 78-year-old woman was suffocated at her home in Mäder, in the Feldkirch district of Vorarlberg, in October 2025. Her 57-year-old daughter, who had been visiting, was found to have held her mouth and nose shut. A court medical examiner found bleeding and bruising at several points on the body consistent with defensive and struggle injuries, a compressed chest and discolouration around the mouth and nose, and concluded that blunt force had been applied. The defence suggested the victim's lung disease might have caused her death; the examiner found the overall findings pointed unambiguously to a killing, and investigators excluded any other perpetrator. On Monday 3 August 2026 a jury court in Feldkirch committed the daughter to a forensic therapeutic centre. A psychiatric opinion excluded criminal responsibility at the time of the act, so she was not convicted: the jury found unanimously that the act would have constituted murder had she been criminally responsible. She had worked for over twenty years in a social-care profession and had long struggled with anxiety, depression, agitation and restlessness, had repeatedly stopped taking her medication, and says she remembers nothing of the act, stating only that it was possible she had killed her mother. She accepted the ruling and the prosecution waived any appeal, so it is final.
- Homicide in gent, BE
· Alleged · 1 source
A social worker employed by the municipal welfare service in Gent was killed on the evening of 13 August 2025 during a round of home visits. When he failed to arrive at his second appointment, police went to the first address he had called at, a social housing unit in the Kikvorsstraat in the Nieuw Gent district, and found him there. He had been killed with violence. He was 56. The resident of the flat, a man who had lived in Belgium for years and had a psychiatric history, had left the scene. He was arrested hours later on the other side of the city and has been held since on suspicion of murder. A reconstruction was carried out at the scene in May 2026. What drove the killing remains unclear. The case prompted a wave of public reaction in Gent and beyond, including a silent vigil the day after the killing and a memorial gathering in Nieuw Gent attended by around a thousand people. It also led welfare services across Flanders to accelerate existing plans on staff safety, including emergency call buttons, redesigned premises with better escape routes, and checklists for home visits.
- Homicide in hurdal, NO
· Charged · 2 sources
A woman was killed in the municipality of Hurdal, in Akershus, on 5 August 2025. According to the indictment she was stabbed 53 times. On 1 August 2026 it was reported that her 28-year-old son had been indicted for the killing. The prosecution considers that he was psychotic at the time of the act, and the Director of Public Prosecutions has ordered an indictment seeking his committal to compulsory psychiatric care rather than a prison sentence. His defence lawyer said he has not denied what happened. The case is due to be heard at Romerike og Glåmdal District Court in late November 2026.
- Homicide in amadora, PT
· Charged · 1 source
A 34-year-old man was shot twelve times in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood of Amadora, in the Lisbon district, on 3 August 2025, and died in hospital of his injuries. The shooting took place during an altercation involving several people, and those responsible fled afterwards. A 41-year-old Portuguese man was arrested in the Marseille region of southern France on 24 June 2026 under a European Arrest Warrant, following a joint operation between the Portuguese judicial police and the French judicial authorities. He was surrendered to Portugal and, after a first judicial interrogation, was remanded in pre-trial detention on suspicion of aggravated homicide.
- Homicide in gemona del friuli, IT
· Charged · 2 sources
Un uomo è stato ucciso e il corpo è stato fatto a pezzi a Gemona del Friuli. La fonte del 26 giugno 2026 riferisce di sviluppi giudiziari sulla custodia cautelare della madre, indicata come imputata confessa.
- Homicide in águeda, PT
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 71-year-old man was beaten to death with a wooden pole at his home in Barrô, in the municipality of Águeda, on 20 July 2025. His body was found two days later. According to the prosecution, the two men met on the road in front of the house and drank a beer together before the attacker struck the victim repeatedly, notably to the head. Investigators found the victim's phone and house keys missing and the access gate locked from the outside, and concluded that the perpetrator had made sure the victim could neither call for help nor leave. DNA and fingerprints on a beer bottle, and biological traces on a wooden pole recovered from the yard, matched the man later arrested. He was detained in October 2025 and held in pre-trial custody, and on 29 July 2026 the court in Aveiro convicted him of aggravated homicide and sentenced him to 16 years and six months in prison.
- Homicide in coevorden, NL
· Convicted · 1 source
De rechtbank in Assen heeft the suspect donderdag veroordeeld tot negen jaar cel voor zijn rol bij een dodelijke schietpartij in Coevorden. Daarbij kwam een 21-jarige man om het leven. Een zeventienjarige medeverdachte kreeg 315 dagen jeugddetentie.
- Homicide in bocholtz, NL
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 39-year-old man from Kerkrade was shot dead on the Wilhelminastraat in Bocholtz, in the Dutch province of Limburg, on 29 May 2025. The shooting followed a dispute over the return of a motorcycle club jacket. Two gunmen opened fire almost simultaneously; a 26-year-old man from Bocholtz was shot by the second gunman and survived. On 11 August 2026 the Limburg district court sentenced a 22-year-old man to eleven years' imprisonment for the manslaughter of the 39-year-old and for the attempted manslaughter of another man. The prosecution service had charged murder, or in the alternative manslaughter, and had demanded thirteen years. The other gunman, a 43-year-old man from Heerlen, was convicted earlier in 2026 of the attempted manslaughter of the surviving victim and of unlawful firearm possession, and was sentenced to five years.
- Homicide in rijswijk, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A 41-year-old man was shot dead on the terrace of a hotel in Rijswijk, in the province of Zuid-Holland, shortly before 6pm on Thursday 1 May 2025. The terrace was busy at the time. Witnesses described a man walking up with his face uncovered, firing three shots at close range and running off into the park surrounding the hotel. The victim, a Turkish national, died at the scene. Police released a description and images of the gunman, who remains at large, and of a second suspect who was seen standing with him at the entrance to the park for several minutes before the shooting. Investigators treat the killing as a contract killing. The victim had reported threats against his life shortly beforehand; he was himself wanted in Turkey, where prosecutors suspected him of involvement in the shooting of a businessman and his driver in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus in 2022, and he had recently made public statements about prominent Turkish political and business figures. On 13 November 2025 a 47-year-old man was arrested in Germany at the request of the Dutch authorities on suspicion of involvement, and he was surrendered to the Netherlands at the end of January 2026; he is not suspected of firing the shots, and how he is connected to the case has not been made public. On 23 March 2026 a 34-year-old Turkish man with no fixed address was arrested in France, suspected of being the gunman; he was held there on a weapons charge while the Netherlands sought his surrender. Police are still looking for a third person believed to have been involved.
- Homicide in mlawa, PL
· Charged · 2 sources
A 16-year-old girl was killed in Mława, in Poland's Masovian Voivodeship, on the evening of 23 April 2025, the day she met the suspect. She was reported missing the following day, and her body was found on 1 May 2025 in scrubland near a production plant belonging to the suspect's family. A post-mortem examination found that she died of extensive head injuries caused by multiple blows. The suspect, who was 17 at the time, was known to the victim and was charged in May 2025 with murder committed with particular cruelty. He was detained in Greece and surrendered to Poland under a European Arrest Warrant. On 13 August 2026 the district prosecutor's office in Płock closed its investigation and filed an indictment against him, now 18, at the regional court in Płock. Twenty witnesses were questioned and 21 expert opinions obtained during the proceedings. He faces up to 30 years' imprisonment and remains in pre-trial detention until the end of September. Experts assessed that his mental state allows him to take part in the proceedings and conduct his own defence.
- Homicide in san giovanni valdarno, IT
· Acquitted · 1 source
The victim, a 93-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease, was suffocated with a scarf by her daughter, who had been acting as her caregiver, at the family home in San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo) on the night of 8-9 March 2025. The suspect contacted police herself immediately afterward and confessed. Prosecutors sought a 12-year sentence, but the Court of Assizes of Arezzo acquitted her, finding that severe stress from the burden of caregiving had left her incapable of understanding or controlling her actions at the time.
- Homicide in waterford, IE
· On trial · 2 sources
A 47-year-old woman was found unresponsive at her partner's house on O'Brien Street in Waterford city on the morning of 25 January 2025 and was pronounced dead a short time later. The State Pathologist gave the cause of death as blunt force traumatic injuries to the head and abdomen, and told the trial she had found extensive external and internal injuries whose overall pattern was consistent with a sustained assault, including bruising around both eyes consistent with direct trauma such as a punch and neck injuries consistent with compression by a hand. A 35-year-old man is on trial for her murder at the Central Criminal Court. The prosecution case is that the injuries were the result of a violent assault; the defence contends that she sustained them accidentally in falls after drinking. The trial opened on 9 July 2026 before a jury of five men and seven women, and the jury began its deliberations on 27 July 2026 after the judge completed his charge.
- Homicide in den dolder, NL
· Convicted · 4 sources
A 76-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Den Dolder on 2 January 2025. She was attacked without warning in the street in broad daylight, on her way home, and was stabbed seventeen times. The man responsible, then 29, was at the time required to stay at a psychiatric clinic in the town following a series of assaults, and was on leave on the day of the attack. On 22 July 2026 the district court in Utrecht convicted him and imposed eight years' imprisonment together with tbs, compulsory psychiatric treatment — a heavier sentence than the six years and tbs the prosecution had demanded. The court found the killing premeditated: he had bought a knife several days beforehand and hidden it under a small bridge, and had made repeated online searches about killing someone and about the sentence murder carries. He was assessed as only partially criminally responsible.
- Homicide in viseu, PT
· Convicted · 1 source
O crime ocorreu no centro comercial Palácio do Gelo em dezembro de 2024. O homem estava acusado de um crime de homicídio qualificado consumado e mais seis na forma tentada.
- Homicide in castignano, IT
· Convicted · 3 sources
The victim, a 45-year-old woman, was killed by her husband at their home in Castignano (Ascoli Piceno), in the hamlet of Ripaberarda, on 19 December 2024. A court found the killing was the intended outcome of over a year of mistreatment, torture, and injuries inflicted with pointed and bladed instruments. On 9 July 2026, the Corte d'Assise di Macerata convicted the husband and sentenced him to life imprisonment plus three months of daytime isolation.
- Homicide in fuengirola, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A 25-year-old Dutch man was shot dead while working at a cannabis club in Fuengirola, on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga, on 7 December 2024. The attacker used a semi-automatic weapon. The suspect, a Belgian national who was 17 at the time, is alleged to have been recruited as a contract killer and to have been sent to kill someone other than the man he shot. He was first arrested in Ghent in June 2025 under a European arrest warrant and transferred to Spain two months later, where he was held in a juvenile detention centre. He was released in May 2026 after the nine-month legal maximum for pre-trial detention expired without a trial beginning or precautionary measures being sought, and then disappeared. In August 2026, now 19, he was arrested again in northern Belgium. The East Flanders prosecutor's office reported the arrest.
- Homicide in zürich, CH
· Convicted · 1 source
A barman was stabbed seven times and killed on 30 August 2023 at a contact bar on the Langstrasse in Zurich. On 29 July 2026 the Zurich district court convicted a 53-year-old Hungarian man of murder and sentenced him to 13 years and 5 months in prison. The court also ordered preventive detention, finding that the risk of him reoffending with the gravest violence remained clearly elevated, and imposed a 12-year expulsion from Switzerland to follow the sentence. The victim's life partner was awarded 40,000 Swiss francs in compensation. The judgment is not yet legally binding and may be appealed.
- Homicide in baleizao, PT
· Convicted · 2 sources
An elderly German couple, aged 79 and 71, were killed by their live-in caretakers at a rural property in Baleizão (Beja, Alentejo) in April 2023; their bodies were found in an advanced state of decomposition. The killing was reportedly driven by a breakdown in the working relationship and a financial motive — the suspects took a vehicle and bank cards belonging to the victims. The suspects were convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison each, but the written judgment has twice been sent back on appeal for reformulation; a third reading is scheduled for September 2026, and the suspects remain free after reaching the maximum limit of pretrial detention.
- Homicide in paris, FR
· Charged · 1 source
A woman was stabbed to death on the morning of Monday 20 March 2023 in the entrance hall of an apartment building on a quiet street in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the place de la Bastille. Her attacker, wearing a black motorcycle helmet, a blue surgical mask, black motorcycle gloves and a blue Deliveroo delivery bag, stabbed her repeatedly in the throat and chest. Around ten schoolchildren witnessed the attack through the glazed door of the building, and adults alerted by their cries were unable to intervene because the door was locked. The victim's husband is accused of her murder. Investigators found that the killing had been meticulously prepared, with a financial motive, and that the delivery-rider disguise was part of that preparation. He is committed for trial before an assize court in January; the source gives the month without the year.
- Homicide in coín, ES
· Alleged · 1 source
A 59-year-old man from Coín, in the province of Málaga, was killed at a home in the town at some point around 2020; his disappearance was reported that year and the date of his death has not been established. A suspect has confessed to killing him there, dismembering the body and moving the remains to several locations in the nearby municipality of Alhaurín de la Torre. The investigation began in June 2025, when municipal workers in Alhaurín de la Torre found a human skull wrapped in a bag inside a service box on the Pinos de Alhaurín estate. Guardia Civil homicide and forensic officers took the case, and DNA testing matched the remains to the man missing since 2020. Investigators then focused on his social and personal circle and, through documentary and database analysis and judicially authorised technical measures, on an acquaintance of his. Ground-penetrating radar, drones and dogs trained to detect biological remains were deployed to search for the rest of the body. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday 28 July 2026 and confessed. He led investigators to the sites where further skeletal remains were recovered; those remains are awaiting genetic analysis for definitive confirmation. No charge has been reported.