A 53-year-old police officer died on New Year’s Eve in Düsseldorf. He belonged to a unit of riot police from the Ruhr area. There has been no news on and no interest in his vaccination status.
“In the midst of the heavy workload at the turn of the year, the officers’ colleagues received the sad news from the hospital,” reported a police spokesman on request. They confirmed that he had not been assaulted or attacked and no outside force had been responsible for his sudden inexplicable death.
The cause of death is currently assumed to have been an “medical emergency“, the police said. “When he collapsed, he had not suffered from anything, but had been, as far as we know, healthy to be deployed,” said a spokesman.
Overall, the spokesman concluded that the police operation at the end of the year was more like a “normal weekend in the old town”. Fireworks were banned in the old town due to the Corona pandemic.