One of the two crooks who were arrested by the police on Wednesday evening is not an “old acquaintance”, but he has an even more intensive ” relationship” with the police. In the 8 days he has spent in the district of Soest, the police have already had to deal with him seven times.The man from Algeria has committed a total of 33 offences in the two months he has been staying in North Rhine-Westphalia.
He got his recent record in the police files together with a 23-year-old – both currently residents of the refugee accommodation centre in Möhnesee – in front of the City-Center on Wednesday evening.
Around 7.45 pm on Wednesday evening, the police were called to the Soest bus station. There, employees of the public order office were already busy settling a dispute between several people. A 26-year-old man from Lippstadt and a 36-year-old woman from Werl had been waiting jointly for a bus. At first they could only watch a crime being committed, the man from Lippstadt then became a victim himself.
First they observed two men leaving the City Centre. “One of them stowed a pair of bathing slippers with a purchase label in his rucksack. The second exchanged his shoes for a pair of new sneakers, from which he disposed of the purchase label,” according to the police report.
The two men, aged 23 and 27, who are currently living in the central accommodation facility (ZUE) for refugees near Möhnesee, then approached the man from Lippstadt and the woman from Werl. One of them distracted them, while the second one took the Lippstadt man’s rucksack. However, this did not go unnoticed.
The arriving police first recorded the facts of the case. “The 27-year-old claimed to have just bought the shoes from a mate in front of the station. The other did not give any details. The 23-year-old had the stolen rucksack on his back. He tried to disguise it with his own backpack, which he was wearing over it,” the police report says.
The officers seized the stolen shoes and handed the backpack over to its owner. During the search of the two suspects
the police also found a small bag of cannabis in one of the 27-year-old’s trouser pockets. The two men were then expelled by the police. But that was not all:
The 27-year-old refused to comply with the order. He was then taken into custody. On the way to the police station, he threatened several times to kill the police officers. Before he was taken to the prison, the officers searched him again more thoroughly. In the process, another nine sachets of cannabis turned up.
“This indicates that the 27-year-old is dealing drugs,” explains police spokesman Wolfgang Lückenkemper. He is a real serial offender: 33 records with the North Rhine-Westphalia police since the man has been in the state, and now already 7 reports with the police in just 8 days since his arrival at Möhnesee.
At least after the night in police custody, there was no sign of insight or improvement. When he was released on Thursday morning, the police officers again had to deal with nasty abuse, and on top of that he demanded the return of the drugs.