47-year-old dies in Mannheim after a check: investigations into two police officers – do videos show the incident?
Created: 05/05/2022, 04:55
By: Patrick Mayer, Christoph Gschoßmann
A man dies in Mannheim after a police check.
Demonstrators make serious allegations.
The LKA Baden-Württemberg determined.
Man dies in Mannheim: He resisted a police check.
Video apparently shows beatings: Man was allegedly beaten by a police officer.
Investigations against police officers: suspicion of bodily harm in office resulting in death.
Update from May 4, 5:39 p.m .:
According to the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office (LKA), traces of blunt force were found on the body of a man who died after a police check in Mannheim.
However, these were "of low intensity," said LKA President Andreas Stenger on Wednesday.
It is unclear whether the 47-year-old died a violent or a natural death.
The man also had heart failure.
The 47-year-old was revived last Monday after the collapse, but later died in hospital.
According to the police and the public prosecutor's office, he is said to have previously resisted.
The two police officers involved are now being investigated on suspicion of causing bodily harm in office resulting in death.
According to the Mannheim police chief Siegfried Kollmar, they have been suspended from duty.
According to the public prosecutor's office, the two officers involved have not yet commented on the process.
To his knowledge, they have not yet become conspicuous, said the senior public prosecutor at the Mannheim public prosecutor's office, Romeo Schuessler, on Wednesday in Mannheim.
The two police officers are being investigated on suspicion of causing bodily harm in office resulting in death.
According to the Mannheim police chief Siegfried Kollmar, they have been suspended from duty.
47-year-old dies in Mannheim after police control: demonstrators with violent allegations
Update from May 3, 8 p.m.:
After the death of a 47-year-old man during a police check in Mannheim
(see initial report)
, several hundred people demonstrated against police violence on Tuesday evening – in Mannheim and Heidelberg.
According to a police spokesman, around 150 people gathered on the Mannheim market square and the rally was initially peaceful.
Shortly after the start of the rally against police violence in Heidelberg at Bismarckplatz, a police spokeswoman spoke to around 220 participants.
A protest march through the city is also planned for the evening.
One of the posters read something like: “You should help, not beat up.
We demand clarification!”
The poster of a demonstrator in Mannheim.
After the death of a man during a police check, hundreds of people took to the streets.
© René Priebe/dpa
The cause of death of the man, who collapsed in the middle of a sidewalk, initially remained unclear.
The autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday (May 4th).
The first results should be available by the end of the week.
The public prosecutor's office is investigating the two officers involved for bodily harm resulting in death in office.
47-year-old dies in Mannheim: demonstrators raise serious allegations against the police
Update from May 3, 10:45 a.m .:
The death of a man in downtown Mannheim polarized the city in the Electoral Palatinate with its more than 300,000 inhabitants.
After a police patrol "applied direct force" according to the Mannheim public prosecutor's office and the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office, a 47-year-old man collapsed in the middle of a sidewalk.
He died a little later in a hospital.
The man is said to be a patient at the Central Institute for Mental Health Mannheim (ZI).
A doctor had informed the police about a patient in need of help.
The incident in Mannheim is now to be cleared up.
As the Ippen portal
mannheim24.de
reports, videos circulating on social media are said to show how the man is allegedly beaten by a police officer.
The forensics work at the crime scene in Mannheim, where a man died after a police check.
© René Priebe/dpa
According to the report, citizens made serious allegations against the police during an apparently spontaneous demonstration.
Several people laid flowers at the alleged crime scene.
A poster was also put up that read: "And another dead migrant by the police... rest in peace".
It also said in capital letters: "NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CASE."
Several people with a migration background had also brought local children who held up banners.
One of them said: "Down with the racist police violence!" What's the truth behind the allegations?
Did the cops do wrong?
The LKA Baden-Württemberg has now started the investigation into the case, which is causing a nationwide sensation.
Dead man in Mannheim: Patient dies after police operation in the city center
First report from May 2nd:
Mannheim/Munich – he resisted a police check – shortly afterwards a man was dead in Mannheim. The man's body was confiscated for further investigations, as the public prosecutor's office in Mannheim and the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) Baden-Württemberg in reported to Stuttgart.
What happened?
According to the information, two officers had checked the 47-year-old on Monday around noon near the market square.
He defended himself against the control.
Unsuccessful, because he was overpowered by the police officers.
The man suddenly collapsed.
He had to be revived.
But he died shortly afterwards in hospital.
The forensics work at the crime scene in Mannheim, where a man died after a police check.
© René Priebe/dpa
There were initially not many details about the exact events.
But apparently it wasn't a random police check.
As the authorities announced, a doctor from the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim had informed the police about the 47-year-old – a patient.
This one needs help.
The two officers and the doctor then went in search of the man until they discovered him in the city center.
Mannheim: Police officers use "direct coercion".
Apparently, the officials immediately took action against the man: the officials used direct force during the check, it was said.
The public prosecutor's office and the LKA did not give details.
An LKA spokesman could not initially be reached for questions.
There are videos on Twitter that probably show the man's arrest.
These show the officers holding the man to the ground with extreme force.
The man's screams can be heard and the police officers can be seen beating him.
According to initial findings, it was unclear why the man suddenly collapsed.
The officers and the doctor immediately started first aid.
"Rescue workers who were summoned took care of the unconscious person and took him to the University Clinic in Mannheim," it said.
The LKA has taken over the investigations - in particular the course of the police operation.
(cg with dpa)
