Berlin, October 27th, 2026 (The Berlin Spectator) – Berlin police registered 585 offenses involving firearms in the first half of 2026, according to a report by the “Welt am Sonntag” weekly. The police confirmed the numbers. Of the total, 324 cases were threats and 261 involved shots being fired. For the same period last year, the paper reported 561 cases.
The statistics also include blank-firing guns, irritant sprayers and signal weapons. Live firearms were discharged 65 times in the first six months of 2026. Police believe that criminal offenses were behind 62 of these incidents. A total of 118 people were recorded as victims, among them two who died.
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Since its founding in November 2025, the special police unit “Ferrum” has opened 708 investigations, obtained 77 arrest warrants and seized 73 live firearms. The unit focuses on the use of firearms in organized crime. At the Berlin public prosecutor’s office, an investigative group called “Telum” handles the cases. The name is Latin for a weapon used in attacks.
Early Saturday morning, shots were fired at a bar in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Several rounds hit the windows of the establishment while people were inside. No one was hurt. “Ferrum” is also investigating an explosion at Stuttgarter Platz almost two weeks ago, as well as shots fired at the facade of a building and a café in Neukölln.