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Police operation in Elversberg after the killing of two officers (picture from January 31)
Photo: Cedric Stolte / imago images / Jan Huebner
Andreas S., who is said to have killed two police officers together with an accomplice in Rhineland-Palatinate, did not have a license to own weapons at the time of the crime.
He also did not have a hunting license, the public prosecutor's office in Kaiserslautern said, citing the competent authority.
The 38-year-old S. and the 32-year-old Florian V. are in custody on suspicion of joint murder and poaching.
A week ago, a 24-year-old police officer and a 29-year-old chief inspector were shot dead during a traffic check near Kusel in the Palatinate.
The investigators suspect that the alleged perpetrators wanted to cover up their hunting poaching.
The trunk of her car was full of dead wild animals.
The two perpetrators were arrested on the same day.
According to the investigators' findings so far, the man did not live alone in a house in Spiesen-Elversberg in Saarland.
After the crime, the investigators found five handguns, a bolt-action rifle, ten other long guns, a crossbow and three silencers and ammunition with Andreas S.'s name engraved on them;
At the scene of the arrest in Sulzbach, the emergency services also secured two other weapons, a shotgun and a loader.
The 38-year-old, who used to have a hunting license, recently ran a game meat trade.
He had been publicly searched for several hours.
The public prosecutor's office also said that on the day of the crime, a witness had reported who towed the alleged perpetrators' car, which was no longer drivable, just a few kilometers from the crime scene.
'This car is secured.
Bullets were found on him, which are being examined more closely.” The 29-year-old police officer had fired before he was fatally shot himself.
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