München – The Penny market on Implerstrasse has been open since seven o’clock. Many customers are using their lunch break on this Wednesday to do their shopping, pop music is playing on the radio. There is nothing in the store to indicate the tragedy that took place here on Monday evening: In an aisle between cheese and ready meals, police officers shot an apparently mentally ill woman.
An employee of the Penny store was not on duty on Monday, but she saw what the crime scene looked like: “There was so much blood,” she told AZ two days later. “The poor woman.” The employees who were on site at the time of the fatal shot were given the day off, the deputy branch manager told AZ. He does not know how they are doing. In front of the store, someone has placed roses on a railing in the shop window and put up candles.
Police shots in supermarket in Munich: Disturbing Whatsapp message to girlfriend
According to Bild, 31-year-old Christine H., who threatened police officers with a kitchen knife in the supermarket and was shot, had written a disturbing WhatsApp message to a friend. “I think there will be deaths today,” she wrote at 12:48 p.m. – six hours before the mentally ill woman died. Police spokesman Andreas Franken confirmed on Wednesday that the homicide squad was aware of this message.
Witness apparently feared the worst
Little is known about what happened immediately before the tragic incident at Penny. Only that at 6:40 p.m. a caller reported to the emergency services that there had been an assault at Goetheplatz and that the caller was pursuing the suspect. The woman she followed into the subway was Christine H.
According to “Bild”, the 31-year-old had met her parents in a restaurant on Goetheplatz. There she is said to have argued with her father. Then the daughter stormed off. The witness followed her into the subway and called the police – she apparently feared the worst. Police spokesman Franken said the exact sequence of events is still being investigated. “The interrogations are ongoing.”
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Police shooting in Munich: A woman also died in 2010
The last police operation in which a person died in Munich due to a service weapon was a long time ago. Back then, a mentally ill woman (26) also lost her life: In December 2010, an employee of a psychiatric facility called the police because a former patient had told him on the phone that she wanted to kill her daughter.
Two police officers drove to her apartment in Großhadern and tried to contact the woman. When they entered the apartment, the woman was waiting there with a kitchen knife in her hand. Despite the use of pepper spray, she attacked the officers. A police officer fired a shot and the woman died. The public prosecutor’s office ruled that the attack was self-defense.
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