After the explosion in Ratingen, several emergency services are fighting for their lives. The perpetrator was arrested. The police have now informed about the background.
Ratingen – It is a case that shakes the entire Federal Republic. In Ratingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, a man blew up his apartment on Thursday. A number of firefighters on site suffered injuries, some of them serious, and fought for their lives after the crime. Special police forces arrive, arrest the person. Shortly thereafter, a body is found, and on Friday the finding of a second deceased person in the building is confirmed. At a press conference, the Düsseldorf police and the fire brigade now spoke about the background to the crime.
The perpetrator is to be brought before the magistrate on Friday. The arrest warrant was requested for attempted murder in nine cases, as also reported 24rhein.de. In addition, there is bodily injury and causing an explosive explosion and fire. The prosecutor's office confirmed that the man was no stranger. Because of an unpaid amount of money, there was an arrest warrant against him, said Laura Neumann, spokeswoman for the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office, on Friday, May 12, the German Press Agency. He also has pre-registrations, "but nothing relevant, nothing comparable," she said.
Driver "screamed for help": Dramatic fire brigade radio message after attack in Ratingen
The details announced by the fire brigade and police at the press conference on Friday sound dramatic. Accordingly, the explosion in Ratingen is said to have been a deliberate attack on the emergency services. The resident is said to have opened the apartment door and deliberately hurled a burning liquid at the forces of the police, fire brigade and rescue service, said Dietmar Henning of the Düsseldorf police on Friday. "The emergency services then left the place, burning themselves."
Emergency services in front of a house in Ratingen. Here, a resident caused an explosion on Thursday and injured numerous people. © IMAGO/Tim Oelbermann
The burning liquid was presumably gasoline. However, the emergency services were also injured by a corrosive liquid or gases – what exactly it was was not conclusively clarified at first. Meanwhile, René Schubert from the Ratingen fire brigade reported that it was actually a routine operation until the situation on site escalated. The firefighter driver "screamed for help" and announced over the radio that his colleagues were injured. Then the subsequent large-scale operation took place.
"Well thought out": Police speak of targeted ambush after Ratingen explosion
In the meantime, the police are sure that the explosion in Ratingen was not a random act, but a planned ambush for the emergency services. The alleged perpetrator was "well thought out", according to the head of police operations, Heike Schultz. "The situation in the apartment, the use of this flammable liquid and the way in which this liquid was then used against the forces used, suggest that this is quite well thought out," Schultz said on Friday. "The door was barricaded, you don't even do that."
It therefore assumes not only a targeted attack, but that the act had been "so well thought out for at least several days". "You don't just do that spontaneously." In the explosion in Ratingen on Thursday, numerous emergency services were injured, some of them life-threatening.
Perpetrator remains silent after explosion in Ratingen – two bodies confirmed in residential building
The perpetrator remained silent after the explosion in Ratingen initially to the allegations and accusations. He was only slightly injured in the incident itself. Already on Thursday it became public that he could be a person from the corona denier milieu. On Friday, investigators said he belonged to the so-called prepper scene. The police also found several weapons. A PTB weapon as well as several knives and daggers had been secured, said Heike Schultz of the Düsseldorf police. In addition, a vessel was found from which the suspect is said to have hurled the flammable liquid at the emergency services.
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The body found on the spot is said to be the mother of the detainee, who lived with him in the apartment. However, the woman had been dead for weeks, and third-party fault was ruled out. As part of the press conference, the police also confirmed the reports of a second dead person found in the high-rise building. This was an elderly man who had lived in the same house. According to information from the "mirror", he was dependent on care and could no longer be cared for by the several hours of use.
It was also dramatic on Thursday in Sindelfingen. Two people were shot dead at a Mercedes plant there. (han/dpa)