From Infovaticana:
The German diocese of Aachen has established an investigative commission to officially examine the alleged Marian apparitions recorded since the early 2000s in Sievernich, a small town located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, about 50 kilometers west of Cologne. The decision falls within the new norms approved by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to evaluate supposed supernatural phenomena.
According to the Catholic agency KNA, Bishop Helmut Dieser has appointed a commission made up of four experts to study the events. The group will be chaired by Stefan Mückl, a jurist specializing in canon law and Church-State relations, who carries out his academic work in Rome. The events date back to the beginning of the 2000s, when a woman from the nearby city of Düren, identified in published reports as Manuela, claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Sievernich, a town of barely 500 inhabitants located between Cologne and Aachen.