A shooting at a Mercedes Benz plant in southwestern Germany that left two people dead was the latest in a series of such incidents in Germany in recent years, placing already-strict gun laws under further scrutiny.
- In March, a gunman shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah's Witness worship hall in Hamburg.
- In February 2020, a 43-year-old man killed nine people with a migration background in a right-wing extremist and racially motivated attack in the city of Hanau, east of Frankfurt, before shooting his mother and himself.
