2023-05-11 19:58:00
Numerous emergency services were injured in an explosion in a high-rise building near Düsseldorf. A female body was found in the apartment.
In an explosion in a high-rise building near Düsseldorf, numerous fire brigade and police forces were injured on Thursday morning, some of them life-threateningly. According to the police’s current knowledge, the detonation was triggered by a 57-year-old German citizen who lived in the apartment with his mother.
After special forces stormed the apartment and arrested the man, a female body was found in the house. No information was initially given regarding her identity. According to dpa information, the person had been dead for a long time.
“Attempted Manslaughter or Attempted Murder”
The public prosecutor’s office in Düsseldorf is investigating an attempted homicide. “Further investigations must show whether it is attempted manslaughter or attempted murder and in how many cases,” said a spokeswoman for the German Press Agency on Thursday evening. The suspect is the arrested 57-year-old. In addition, it is checked how the found dead died.
Research on social media had shown that the man “was mentally in the corona denier environment,” reported North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul in the specialist committee of the Düsseldorf state parliament.
Door torn open – “fireball hits emergency services”
The Düsseldorf police gave a drastic description of what happened. Accordingly, the emergency services were called in the morning because there were concerns regarding a resident of the Ratinger high-rise whose mailbox was overflowing. When the police and fire brigade were standing in front of her apartment door, her 57-year-old son suddenly ripped it open, police spokesman Raimund Dockter reported. “There was an explosion immediately, immediately, so a fireball came towards the colleagues from the fire brigade and police.”
As a result, a 25-year-old police officer and a 29-year-old police officer were critically injured. “22 others suffered minor injuries,” the police said later in the evening. Seven people were injured by firefighters, three of them critically and four seriously.
How the explosion was actually triggered has yet to be determined. In the further course, the suspect also set a fire, which made entering the apartment and the reconnaissance work more difficult. It is possible that the man wanted to lure the emergency services into an ambush, but cannot be confirmed at this time, Dockter said.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst expressed their dismay at the consequences of the explosion, as did Reul. “This is really something unimaginably terrible for those who work every day for other people and for their safety,” Faeser told journalists. It’s also bad that such a terrible event happened during a routine operation. Faeser said she spoke to Reul on the phone and promised him the full support of the German government.
Wüst wrote on Twitter: “My thoughts are with the emergency services who bravely risked their lives and are now fighting for it.” The authorities made every effort to clarify the circumstances of the incident. “We give those affected our full support.”
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