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Second shooting since Christmas in Berlin-Wedding

A suspect is on the run after wounding another man with a gun on Sunday night, police said on Monday.

Published: 22 February 2016 14:37 CET
Second shooting since Christmas in Berlin-Wedding
Photo: DPA

Police found a man lying on the ground with multiple wounds in Tromsöer Straße at around 6:40 pm on Sunday after being called to the scene by local people reporting a confrontation, they said in a statement.

He had been fighting with another man when one of them pulled out a gun and shot the other in thigh and foot, local paper BZ reported.

The perpetrator then escaped in the direction of Residenzstraße. Detectives are still investigating the background and possible motives for the crime as they seek to find the suspect.

Meanwhile, the victim underwent emergency surgery at the nearby Virchow clinic soon after the incident. His injuries are not life-threatening. Police are waiting for him to recover sufficiently to give a statement on the events.

The attack followed a similar incident in the same district on December 26th, when a man was wounded in a fight between him and three others armed with a gun.

A week and a half later, the police said they had seven suspects in the crime. They believe the assault resulted from a family feud.

Despite these recent events, the number of cases of assault in Berlin involving firearms has been on the decline.

According to the most recent police crime statistics, the number of shots fired during crimes fell by roughly 40% between 2005 and 2014.

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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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