Major police operation in a high-rise building on Henrik-Ibsen-Strasse in the Rostock district of Evershagen. There, a 57-year-old Syrian attacked Tuesday at noon at about 12 pm first residents and then several police officers with a knife.
“According to initial findings, the man then retreated to his apartment,” a police spokesman told newspaper BILD.
Since it could not be ruled out that the 57-year-old was in an exceptional mental situation, the social psychiatric service was immediately involved in the operation.
A short time later, the man again stormed towards the officers and again threatened them aggressively with the knife. According to the police, the suspect did not respond to the officers.
The police officers asked the man to put down the knife. However, the 57-year-old did not comply with this request, whereupon the officers finally made use of the firearm and shot the man in the leg and upper body.
Until the arrival of the emergency services, the injured man was first treated by the police officers and then taken to hospital in an ambulance.
The police tweeted in the early afternoon that the situation was now under control and that there was no longer any danger to the public.
Police spokesman Martin Ahrens told BILD: “The forces deployed addressed the suspect several times and also threatened the use of firearms due to the acute dangerous situation and then ultimately also made use of the firearm.”
Just a few days ago, a crossbow attack in Chemnitz caused a stir throughout Germany when a man attacked several police officers with a crossbow during an operation there and the officers then also brought the firearms to bear and injured the attacker severely, but again not life-threateningly.