Lower Saxony: men shoot at refugees with light ammunition

In Schöningen in Lower Saxony men shot with light ammunition from a detonator pistol on refugees. The police said Monday that in addition to three adults, the shotgun group included a baby just five months old. Two passers-by who wanted to help the refugees from Ivory Coast came under fire.

The shots were fired on Saturday evening from a balcony of a multi-family house, as the police Wolfsburg announced. The victims were on a street on a car and were unhurt. Policemen still held in the apartment four drunken German suspects aged between 29 and 52 years. There was also the suspected murder weapon and ammunition. Now it is determined whether a xenophobic motive exists. The state protection determined.