Berlin-Johannisthal shooting, Digi Mart USA News (Berlin-Johannisthal, Germany): A man was shot in the leg in the Johannisthal district of Berlin on Thursday evening, according to a publisher report citing the Berlin police on their WhatsApp channel.
Witnesses alerted officers around 9:50 p.m. to Sterndamm after hearing gunshots.
When officers arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound to his leg. He was taken to a hospital, where he underwent surgery.
Police said he is not believed to be in danger of his life.
The perpetrator or perpetrators reportedly fled in a vehicle toward Michael-Brückner-Straße. The criminal police have taken over the investigation at the scene.
The report places the incident within a broader rise in firearm violence in Berlin. A man was shot several times in the upper body in Wedding on Wednesday.
On Sunday, shots were reportedly fired at a restaurant in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and a residential building in Steglitz-Zehlendorf; no one was injured in either case.
Police reported 585 offenses involving firearms in Berlin in the first half of 2026, including 324 threats and 261 shots fired. In 2025, police recorded 1,119 cases of firearm use, including threats without gunfire, an increase of 68 percent over 2024, according to official figures cited in the report.
In November 2025, the Berlin police set up a special unit called “Ferrum” (Latin for “iron”), with about 110 officers, to combat firearm violence. The Berlin prosecutor’s office has an investigative group called “Telum” (Latin for “attack weapon”) responsible for related proceedings, established to strengthen the fight against organized crime.
