The police and fire department deployed heavily in Berlin on Friday evening. One person died, others are seriously injured. The background was initially unclear.
- On Friday evening, shots were fired near the Berlin Tempodrom event hall .
- According to the fire department, an argument has escalated . A person died in the process. Others are seriously injured.
- The police were on site with a large contingent.
Update from February 15, 5.40 p.m .: According to a police spokeswoman, the victims and the suspected perpetrators are not, according to previous knowledge, visitors to the "Güldür Güldür Show" , the event that took place at the time of the crime in the Tempodrom in Berlin . A viewer of the show had previously described the Tagesspiegel observations that suggested the opposite.
According to information from the newspaper, the police were on site so quickly on Friday evening because a civil patrol and a mobile task force had already been in the immediate vicinity of the hall. This may have prevented further deaths.
Update from February 15, 5.15 p.m .: A spectator of the comedy show, which had taken place in the Tempodrom event hall, reported conspicuous observations during the show to the Tagesspiegel . Accordingly, she saw three men from the front rows, the VIP area, standing up. According to their statements, they would have been between 25 and 30 years old and would then have left the event hastily. So far, this information has not been confirmed by the police.
According to the viewer, no shots were heard during the performance itself. Once, however, the music is said to have suddenly been turned very loud. It remains unclear whether the show was in any connection with the act in front of the venue.
The newspaper had also learned from police circles that the perpetrators shot their victims several times in the legs, the deceased 42-year-old six times. According to a spokeswoman for the General Prosecutor's Office in Berlin, there were indeed leg injuries .
Update from February 15, 10.25 a.m .: The man who was shot in front of the Tempodrom in Berlin-Kreuzberg is a 42-year-old man, as has now been announced. The spokeswoman for the Attorney General of Berlin, Mona Lorenz , explained further details on the Saturday morning drama , in which four people were injured in addition to the dead, some of them seriously. The background to the crime, which occurred on Friday evening around 11 p.m., is still completely unclear, the perpetrator (s) are still fleeting.
It cannot be said with certainty whether there were one or more perpetrators , but a homicide commission is investigating at high pressure .
The #Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin and the #MoKo of the Berlin police are working hard to identify the unknown perpetrators and the background to the crime. A total of 4 male people were injured. https://t.co/Kc0oCs9X1B
- GenStA Berlin (@GStABerlin) February 15, 2020Gunfire in Berlin: One dead and several injured in front of Tempodrom
Update from February 15, 6:09 am: After the shots in Berlin late Friday evening , the background to the incident is still unclear. On Saturday morning, a police spokesman said: "There is no further information at the moment".
On Friday evening, a man was shot in front of the Tempodrom event hall in Berlin-Kreuzberg and four others injured. The police were deployed with a large contingent and cordoned off the crime scene extensively.
At the time of the incident, a Turkish comedy show was taking place in the Tempodrom . Visitors were brought out of the building through side and rear entrances. Apparently there was no panic. It is not clear whether the incident was related to the event.
Approximately At 10:50 p.m., emergency services were alerted to the #tempodrome.
According to initial knowledge, strangers fired shots outside the building, causing one person to die and three others injured. The perpetrators are fleeting. Our #Moko has started the investigation.
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Gunfire in Berlin: A dead man - police in large-scale operations - perpetrators fleeing
Berlin - A person died in a conflict in Berlin-Kreuzberg . "Four more were injured and medics took care of them," a fire department spokesman said late Friday night. Three of the injured people had made their way to the hospital, it said. The police were deployed with a large contingent. "At the moment we cannot say anything about the background," said a police spokesman.
The perpetrator (s) are on the run, Focus reports, referring to a police spokesman at night. The Tagesspiegel also reports that the police operation, in which units armed with submachine guns also secured the area, in which almost 200 officers were deployed, had ended around midnight.
Berlin: Shots in front of Tempodrom - One dead and several injured
According to the fire department , the argument happened near the Tempodrom event hall. The area was cordoned off extensively. Numerous police officers secured the crime scene in the evening with submachine guns. The visitors to the event in the Tempodrom were led out of side and back entrances. There was no great hectic or panic, as a dpa reporter reported. Police searched the surrounding green areas.
Homicide and forensics were on site. Firefighters and police did not give any further details. At first it was not known whether there were arrests.
Shots were recently reported at Checkpoint-Charly in Berlin. The police arrived with a large contingent. Special forces of the police moved in Munich when shots were reported at a wedding parade.