A fire has been burning on the site of a former car dealership in Grimma since Monday evening. An investigation is underway on suspicion of arson. Meanwhile, the months-long criminal trial at Rostock Regional Court concerning the murder of Fabian (8) from Güstrow, who was killed over a year ago, has concluded with a guilty verdict. The LZ summarises the key events from Tuesday, 10 November 2026, in Leipzig, Saxony and beyond.
Arsonist at work? Fire in Grimma keeps emergency services on their toes
A fire on the site of a former car dealership in Grimma kept
emergency services on their toes last night. As spokeswoman Therese
Leverenz from the Leipzig Police Headquarters reported this
morning, the incident was reported via an emergency call at around
10.20 pm. Members of the volunteer fire brigades from Grimma,
Hohnstädt, Großbardau, Schkortitz, Kaditzsch and Döben rushed to
the scene and eventually managed to bring the flames under control. 
Leipziger Straße was temporarily closed.
The mop-up operations, which continued into the early hours of
the morning, proved particularly challenging: the Grimma media portal
reports
that a pavilion on the site had most recently been used as a
storage facility for, amongst other things, furniture and other
items intended as donations. The search for hidden pockets of
embers was correspondingly labour-intensive. Otherwise, the site of
the former car dealership, which had already deregistered its
business in 2024, was effectively empty.
There were reportedly no injuries as a result of the fire. The extent of the damage has not yet been quantified. Detectives are investigating on suspicion of arson.
Murder of little Fabian from Güstrow: Rostock Regional Court imposes maximum sentence on defendant
This case leaves no one unmoved. A child who was brutally maimed
and murdered, with his whole life still ahead of him; a woman as
the alleged perpetrator; a protracted trial based on circumstantial
evidence with no confession: More than a year after the brutal
death of 8-year-old Fabian from Güstrow, the Rostock Regional Court today
sentenced Gina H., who stood accused of murder, to life
imprisonment and recognised the particularly serious nature of her
guilt
. This virtually rules out the possibility of her being released
after serving just 15 years of her sentence.
According to the prosecution, 30-year-old Gina H. is alleged to
have killed
Fabian, the son of her then ex-boyfriend, on 10 October 2025 near a
pond in Klein Upahl (Rostock district) by stabbing him several times with a
knife
, and subsequently set his body alight. The motive is said to have
been that the woman regarded the boy as an obstacle to her desire
to resume her relationship with the child’s father.
Throughout the 35-day trial, which took place amid massive media and public attention, the defendant denied her guilt until the very end. However, the prosecution and the joint plaintiffs considered Gina H. to have been proven guilty of a malicious murder committed for base motives, based on numerous pieces of circumstantial evidence and contradictions in her statements, and sought a life sentence on the grounds of particularly grave culpability. The court concurred. Gina H.’s defence lawyers had called for an acquittal on the grounds of doubts regarding the chain of circumstantial evidence. An appeal against the verdict is still possible.
What the LZ reported today:
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What else was happening:
Saxony is apparently planning to revise the scalled ‘overall marks’ on school reports.
A large-scale police operation was launched following gunshots not far from Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. Several bodies have since been found.
In Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf, negotiations mediated by the US are underway regarding a possible end to the war – but a breakthrough remains unlikely, even almost five years after the start of Putin’s full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, according to political scientist Gerhard Mangott.
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