A Gautingen police officer was attacked with a beer bottle during a identity check on Tuesday evening.
The attacker was taken to a closed facility.
Gauting - If someone conspicuously tries to hide behind the console while looking at the police in the car, it is all too suspicious. This is what two patrol officers thought on Tuesday evening on the forest promenade in Gauting when they drove past a parked vehicle in which a man was sitting, smoking through an open gap in the passenger window, and diving down when he saw the uniformed men. Knives in the footwell also helped alert the police when they asked the man to get out and identify himself. Although he didn't touch the knife, he had a beer bottle in his jacket pocket with which he tried to hit one of the two policemen on the head.
As it turned out, the man was a 28-year-old Unterhachinger who was known to the police. He had sneaked into his ex-girlfriend's car from Gauting, which was not only open, according to police reports, the key was in it. The Unterhachinger, whom the officers were able to overpower almost unscathed, was drunk at the time of his arrest. A toxicological examination has to clarify whether he was under the influence of other drugs. Because what the man said was "completely incoherent and confused", said Gauting's police chief Andreas Ruch. The Unterhachinger was therefore taken to a psychiatric facility in Gauting to be on the safe side.
The attacker was injured in the attack with the beer bottle when the 28-year-old policeman he attacked was able to wrestle him to the ground.
The Unterhachinger suffered a cut on the back of the head, which was still being cared for on site by rescue workers.
The officer, in turn, suffered a graze on his right hand and bruises and scratches on his forearm during the scramble.