Large-scale operation in Baden-Württemberg: SEK officials shot – police cordon off district
Created: 04/20/2022, 16:11
By: Kai Hartwig
During the SEK operation in Boxberg, the stormed house caught fire.
© SDMG/Kohls/dpa
Shots are fired during a police operation in Baden-Württemberg.
One officer is injured and several people arrested.
Are there connections to the Reich citizen scene?
Boxberg – In Boxberg, Baden-Württemberg, a police operation came to a bloody end on Wednesday.
A SEK officer was shot.
A police spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the officers were shot several times while they tried to search a building.
Accordingly, the shot police officer of the special task force was hit in the leg.
However, his injury is not life-threatening, it said.
The police search in Boxberg, which lies between Heidelberg and Würzburg not far from the border between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, was carried out on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons.
During the police action, a man resisted arrest and was arrested.
Shots were fired during a police operation in Boxberg, Baden-Württemberg.
© SDMG/Kohls/dpa
Shots during police operation in Boxberg (Baden-Würtemmberg) – perpetrator a “Reich citizen”?
Several media reported that the arrested person was a supporter of the so-called Reichsbürger scene.
The police spokeswoman declined to comment on this.
Nevertheless, a politically motivated background to the crime cannot be ruled out.
According to the police, other people who were staying in the property were arrested without resistance and unharmed.
Defusers then searched the building.
There was a suspicion that there might be ammunition or something similar there.
Also, there was a fire.
As part of the police measure, the Bobstadt district was temporarily cordoned off.
Residents have been asked to keep their doors and windows closed.
After shots in the police operation: Union boss Kusterer warns of the "Reich citizen scene"
The head of the German police union, Ralf Kusterer, meanwhile said: "For years, the police have been concerned with the increasing danger emanating from 'Reich citizens'." In this context, he remembers the killing of a SEK officer in Bavaria in 2016.
This incident showed the potential danger that one had to reckon with.
Therefore, wherever weapons are involved, the alarm bells should ring, said Kusterer.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that around 3,300 people in Baden-Württemberg are part of this scene.
The "Reichsbürger" and "Selbstverwalter" deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and its legal system.
They deny politicians and civil servants their legitimacy and repeatedly break the law.
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