Three unknown men fired a New Year's Eve rocket at a patrol car from a bridge in Dortmund.
The projectile ricocheted off the windshield and flew "by a hair's breadth on the head of a police officer," as the authorities announced on Monday.
Accordingly, the patrol car crew had been called late Saturday evening because of a theft.
Dortmund - On a bridge they saw three uninvolved men - who, according to the police, shot down the rocket.
The investigators are now looking for witnesses.
dpa