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Husband and wife killed in Lübeck shooting

UPDATE: Two people were killed in an apparent drive-by shooting outside their home in a leafy suburb of the northern city of Lübeck on Wednesday afternoon. Hours later the suspected shooter, reportedly the ex-husband of one of the victims, was found dead in a car.

Published: 2 July 2014 17:30 CEST
Updated: 3 July 2014 08:58 CEST
Husband and wife killed in Lübeck shooting
Photo: DPA

A 58-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man were shot at around 2.35pm in Groß-Steinrade, a suburb of Lübeck, police said.

The victims, reportedly a married couple, both died of their injuries a short while later. 

After firing the shots outside the couple's home, the murder suspect fled in a vehicle.

The crime scene was cordoned off, while prosecutors, homicide and forensic officers investigated.

Police then searched for the shooter using a helicopter and at 5pm a white Renault Kangoo van was found on a dirt road in the nearby village of Badendorf.

Inside the van, officers found the body of a 59-year-old man from Thuringia. He died with a gunshot wound to the head. The weapon was found on him, police said.

“At the moment investigators believe that there is a link [between the shootings],” police said in a statement.

The Lübecker Nachrichten reported that the 59-year-old was the ex-husband of the woman who was shot. Investigations are continuing.

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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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