⌨Overnight tallies replaced live blogs from the 'Gen Z regelt' day. Editors contrasted calm, smaller-than-announced daytime marches with nighttime looting on Frankfurt's Zeil, barricades and SEK deployment, and Molotov attacks on police in Cologne, with Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin listed as further flashpoints. By midday the story turned to blame and bilan. Police reported arrests, injured officers in Frankfurt including teeth knocked out by a stone, and a cordoned-off city centre still under heavy deployment. Interior Minister Dobrindt attributed the violence to leftist groups and 'chaoten aus migrantischem Milieu,' prompting calls for 'volle Härte' and counter-warnings not to dismiss peaceful protesters' concerns. Commentators described rioters hijacking the youth protest.
Evening coverage fragmented toward the US midterms two days out and advancing Red-Green-Red talks in Berlin.