A traffic control in Vellmar in northern Hesse escalated on Monday evening: a police officer had to use his service weapon - the man dies.
- Traffic control in Vellmar in the district of Kassel (Northern Hesse) has gotten out of hand.
- A police officer had to use his service weapon.
- A man is mortally wounded by the shots.
A man was fatally injured in a traffic control in Vellmar on Monday evening. The police announced late in the evening. According to this information, the man was said to have been armed with a knife.
Vellmar: Dead in traffic control - emergency doctor could no longer help
According to the police , around 8:00 p.m. "Police officers used the service weapon" in Vellmar. The man had suffered serious injuries and, despite “immediate rescue measures”, had been killed by an emergency doctor and rescue workers who had rushed in a short time later.
Vellmar: policeman shoots man at traffic control - investigation initiated
The inspection had taken place in the Weideweg and Kasseler Strasse areas in Vellmar. As usual in operations in which police officers use the firearm , the State Criminal Police Office and the public prosecutor's office were informed.
Fatalities by police officers in Germany:
Gun deaths by the police are rare in Germany. In 2018, 11 people were shot by police officers in Germany, according to statista.com. The statistics portal has taken the figures from statistics from the German Police University.
Accordingly, there have been 287 fatalities in Germany due to the use of firearms by the police since 1990. The highest number of people killed in this period was in 1995 - at that time, 25 people were killed by police officers.
Dead at traffic control in Berlin
A traffic control in Berlin also ended fatally in September 2019: During the vehicle inspection on the Berliner Ring in Potsdam, the man behind the wheel is said to have pulled a gun - he was shot by the police. It later turned out that the victim was a suspect sought by the Polish police.
At the end of December 2019, a 32-year-old driver was shot by the police in Stuttgart after a traffic accident. The man is said to have threatened a police patrol with a sword after the accident. As the police and public prosecutor announced at the time, the man is said to have suddenly attacked an official and his colleague at the scene of the accident with the stab when they spoke to him.
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