Large-scale operation on Saturday evening at the hotspot Eisenbahnstraße in Leipzig.
According to the police, a man (32) was seriously injured by a gunshot at around 8.45 pm. He had to be taken to hospital.
“A 29-year-old, Tunisian suspect was caught and taken into custody,” a police spokesman said. According to information from the newspaper BILD, the suspected shooter had initially fled.
What exactly happened is still being investigated. Witnesses said that several people had been involved in an altercation.
Until midnight, officers secured evidence and the crime scene was cordoned off. The public prosecutor’s office declared that it would apply for the 29-year-old’s arrest.
Leipzig’s Eisenbahnstraße is considered a crime hotspot and was even declared a weapons ban zone in 2018. Since then, weapons such as pistols and knives have been banned there, and the police are allowed to carry out checks without suspicion. In February, however, the city decided to abolish the zone again soon – according to a study by the University of Leipzig, it had hardly any influence on crime.