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The »Arena Bar« with the adjacent »24/7« kiosk in Hanau-Kesselstadt after the attack in February 2020: First emergency call at 10 p.m. and 50 seconds
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ARMANDO BABANI / EPA-EFE / REX
It is February 19, 2020, shortly after 10 p.m., when the Hanau attacker shot nine young people.
He kills on the street, in a parking lot, in three bars, in a kiosk.
He injures six other people.
At home, the 43-year-old shoots his mother and himself.
What remains are survivors and bereaved families who have doubts and distrust.
They filed a criminal complaint because the emergency number was manned that night and an emergency exit was blocked.
In both cases, the Hanau public prosecutor closed the investigation.
Now she also declares the investigation that should shed light on the death of Ferhat Unvar as completed.
The 23-year-old was shot in the "Kiosk 24/7" on Kurt-Schumacher-Platz and was able to pull himself behind the counter.
This is evidenced by recordings from a video camera.
Ferhat Unvar lay there motionless.
Could he have been saved?
Supervision complaint against police officers
Relatives and survivors filed an administrative complaint in March.
The police officers who entered the shop first simply assumed that Ferhat Unvar was dead.
The complaint states: "They neither checked the vital functions of Ferhat Unvar, nor did they take life-saving measures for first aid, nor did they promptly alert the medical service with reference to his extremely life-threatening situation (chest / stomach wound)."
One of the policemen had also stepped over Ferhat Unvar three times to screen the window from outside glances, "without even briefly checking his condition."
The emergency doctor, who checked the vital functions, saw Ferhat Unvar too late for first aid, say the bereaved and survivors.
"No initial suspicion"
According to the results of the preliminary investigations, however, there is "no initial suspicion of a criminal act," says Chief Public Prosecutor Dominik Mies.
A "criminally relevant misconduct by police officers" could not be determined after an "extensive examination" by the public prosecutor's office in Hanau and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office.
The death of Ferhat Unvar has been investigated in "every detail".
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The video recordings of the kiosk, audio recordings of the emergency calls, incident protocols, crime scene and autopsy reports were evaluated, says Mies.
According to the reconstruction of the public prosecutor's office, an emergency call for the attack on Kurt-Schumacher-Platz in Kesselstadt was received for the first time at the fire brigade control center at 10 p.m. and 50 seconds; the kiosk "24/7" is located here.
The assassin had previously shot around in downtown Hanau and drove his car to the Kesselstadt district.
At 10:04 p.m., the Hanau I police station reported shots on the radio at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz, and at 10:08 p.m. the first patrol arrived.
Difficult "access" to Ferhat Unvar
Two minutes later, surveillance videos show, two police officers and a female police officer enter the »Arena Bar«. The first ambulances arrive at 10:13 p.m. They take care of the injured in the parking lot in front of the restaurant. A police officer points out that there are other "patients" in the bar. At 10:16 p.m. a paramedic enters the kiosk. Shortly thereafter, among other things, employees of the rescue service and an emergency doctor follow. Around half past ten it is noted in the minutes: five dead on Kurt-Schumacher-Platz.
One of the emergency doctors from that night told the public prosecutor that in a situation like the one in Hanau, the first emergency doctor to arrive would do a sighting and examine the place of work from a medical point of view. He found no signs of life in the victims in the kiosk; he always checked whether there was a pulse or breathing. He examined Ferhat Unvar at 10:24 p.m.
During his interrogation by the public prosecutor's office, the chief emergency doctor stated that he had been alerted at 10.30 p.m. and arrived at the so-called location 13 minutes later, from where he walked to the crime scene.
When he was handed over, he learned that there were five dead whose deaths still have to be determined by a doctor.
He and an ambulance crew then went to the scene with a monitor and defibrillator and carried out EKG measurements.
The forensic doctor who autopsied Ferhat Unvar said that the 23-year-old died less than a minute from serious gunshot wounds and that Ferhat Unvar was bleeding to death internally.
According to him, resuscitation would have had no prospect of success.
"I burn!
I burn!"
With this, "the fact of failure to provide assistance" is not fulfilled, says Chief Public Prosecutor Mies. In Ferhat Unvar's civil death certificate, the time of death is recorded at 3:10 a.m. This is not about »the time of actual death«, according to Mies, but rather the time when the forensic doctors who were appointed to inspect the crime began.
Otherwise, the preliminary investigations would also have shown “no evidence of criminal misconduct by the police officers deployed on site”. In fact, during an initial inspection of the kiosk at 10:16 p.m., the ambulance service overlooked Ferhat Unvar, who was lying dead behind the sales counter. The policeman who tried to operate the blinds at 10:18 p.m. could not have known. He could therefore not be accused of not having checked his vital functions. At 10:24 p.m., the emergency doctor finally found that Ferhat Unvar had neither pulse nor breathing.
The statement made by a visitor to the kiosk is also important: he himself sought protection behind the counter when the assassin shot.
Ferhat Unvar "crawled in" behind the counter and said in Turkish: "I'm on fire!
I'm on fire! ”Then blood came out of his mouth, that was“ his last breath ”.
He, the visitor, had waited another ten minutes and only then went out of cover.
