Bonn – Blue lights flicker through the rain, police sirens wail. A man is fiddling with some kind of bag while several police officers point their guns at him. It is not clear from the pictures whether he is reaching for a weapon. Then the man moves towards the officers, two shots are fired – and the man collapses.
An eyewitness filmed the dramatic seconds that took place before the shots were fired. BILD has the video. The injured man was taken to hospital and treated in the intensive care unit. He died there in the early evening.
Traces of blood testify to the dramatic police operation in Bonn’s northern district
Photo: Mario Jüngling / BILD
Police shoot knife-wielding man
The major operation and police shooting took place on Wednesday in the Nordstadt district of Bonn (North Rhine-Westphalia). A man (32) and a woman (37) had previously been injured with a knife by an acquaintance. The police searched for the perpetrator and arrested him near a Burger King branch. This is where the dramatic scenes took place.
Evidence was secured at the crime scene
Photo: Mario Jüngling / BILD
As BILD learned, the officers deployed belong to the 13th riot police. Bornheimer Strasse and Heinrich-Böll-Ring were cordoned off by the police after the shooting. To ensure that important evidence was not affected by the rain that began to fall, the fire brigade set up two pavilions.
There is currently no information about the identity of the knife-wielding man. According to BILD information, he and the two people attacked belong to the drug scene.
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