Solingen knife attack suspect detained for alleged membership of ‘terrorist group’, thousands demonstrate against the far-right in eastern states and more news from around Germany on Monday.

More than 1,000 runners are expected to take part in the race up the 40 floors of the Cologne Tower, the city’s tallest office building, in Sunday’s Staircase Championship.

The main suspect in a knife attack in the German city of Solingen which left three dead has given himself up and confessed in custody, police said in a statement Sunday.

German police have detained a person as part of their probe into the deadly knife attack at a street festival in the city of Solingen, they said Saturday.

From new polls showing the tight race for eastern state elections to a ‘placeholder’ surname and the Switzerlands of Germany, here’s what we’re talking about this week.

Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the country has been “deeply shocked” by a knife attack in Solingen which left three dead and that police were doing “everything they can” to catch the attacker.

Three people were killed and four severely wounded in a knife attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, police said, with the search for the suspect dragging on into Saturday morning.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin next week in his first bilateral trip since taking office, a German government spokesman said Friday.

Citizenship applications are piling up faster than they can be processed in immigration offices across Germany. But a pilot project launched in two states could provide a model for streamlining the application procedure.

Berlin Zoo said Friday its resident panda Meng Meng had delivered twins for the second time, hailing the rare births as a boost to the endangered creatures.