Large-scale operation in the center of Nuremberg because of a man with a pistol - police officers pull out their weapons
Created: 06/24/2022, 21:58
By: Marcus Giebel
Police operation because of a carnival pistol: In Nuremberg, a large contingent arrived in the city center.
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Nuremberg experienced a police operation that was anything but ordinary on Friday.
The focus was on a couple and an apparently deceptively real carnival pistol.
Nuremberg – Involuntarily, but not through no fault of their own, a couple in Nuremberg triggered a large-scale police operation on Friday afternoon (June 24).
The man and the woman even faced emergency services with service weapons drawn.
The law enforcement officers were deployed because the 25-year-old was said to have been seen with a firearm near the Lorenzkirche in the city center.
He was staying with a woman on a park bench in a green area in Pfarrgasse and was handling a pistol, it was said when the operations center of the Central Franconia police headquarters was alerted at around 2:15 p.m.
The law enforcement officers did not want to take any risks and moved in with a large number of emergency services.
The support command (USK) was also there.
The area of the green space was cordoned off and secured over a large area.
Police operation in Nuremberg city center: law enforcement officers approach man “with service weapons drawn”
Around 3 p.m., the police spoke to the couple, and they approached them “while observing their own safety and with service weapons drawn”.
The man and woman were tied up as a precaution before officers discovered the suspected firearm.
This turned out to be "apparently a newly purchased carnival pistol".
The police assume that the couple wanted to take a look at the new acquisition in public.
It probably didn't occur to them what impression the sight can make on their fellow human beings.
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The access had consequences for the 25-year-old, because he "suffered from a panic attack during the police measures and was given medical care on site by employees of the rescue service".
He and his partner were then allowed to go their own way, and the police could not find any criminal offenses.
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The statement does not reveal whether the law enforcement officers made the two of them promise to transport the toy gun more carefully and better hidden from now on.
After all the understandable excitement, the police operation was declared over at around 3:30 p.m.
So the people of Nuremberg were able to relax and enjoy the summer day in the old town again.
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