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Hanover man shoots 18-year-old burglar dead

A man in Hannover shot a teenager dead on Monday night after the 18-year-old allegedly broke into his house.

Published: 9 June 2015 09:03 CEST
Hanover man shoots 18-year-old burglar dead
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Police said the alleged burglar died in hospital of a serious gunshot wound after they found him a few hundreds metres from the location of the break-in.

Paramedics had to resuscitate him once before he could be moved to hospital for emergency surgery.

The 40-year-old homeowner told officers that he encountered three unknown people on his property after hearing noises during the night.

Since one of the men was armed, he returned to the house to fetch his own pistol and fired one shot.

It's not yet clear under what exact circumstances the man fired his weapon.

The intruders fled in different directions as the man called the police. There was no trace of the other two men by Tuesday morning despite large numbers of officers and a helicopter taking part in the search.

A police spokesman said that the homeowner had a license for his weapon and that he is now under investigation for suspected manslaughter.

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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