2024-03-05 00:22:50
What we know with certainty regarding the operation at the Luisenhospital:
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Late on Monday evening, the police and special forces ended a large-scale operation lasting several hours at the Luisenhospital in Aachen with an emergency attack and temporarily arrested a 65-year-old woman from Eschweiler. She will have to answer in criminal proceedings for attempted murder.
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According to current information, investigators assume that the woman went to the hospital with suicidal intentions. She suffered serious injuries from gunshots during the attack and had to receive medical treatment on site.
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There is a connection between the crime in Luisenhospital and a fire in the 65-year-old’s apartment in an apartment building in Eschweiler-Röhe in the early followingnoon.
At the Luisenhospital in Aachen, the large-scale police operation lasted until late in the evening, then the special police unit struck at 10:38 p.m. Aachen police spokesman Andreas Müller confirmed the end of the dangerous situation in front of the hospital around 11 p.m. on Monday evening, which had kept the emergency services and the entire staff as well as the patients in the Luisenhospital in suspense. The 65-year-old was seriously injured by police shots during the attack. When she was taken from the hospital, she was lying on a stretcher and was taken to an ambulance for initial treatment, which remained at the scene for a long time.
Luisenhospital: SEK overpowers 65-year-olds © Bartczak, Kreutz, Felker, Hinrichs
Details are given in a press statement from the Cologne police on Tuesday night. The 65-year-old is said to have entered the Luisenhospital around 5 p.m. with a weapon that later turned out to be a blank gun, a noticeably large belt and another, previously unknown object, and threatened employees of the physiotherapy practice.
According to the police, following an employee managed to get the weapon out of the woman’s hands, she allegedly retreated into a patient’s room and then ignited a pyrotechnic object and threw it into the hallway. According to police, the surrounding areas around the woman’s whereregardings were evacuated.
According to the police, following many hours of tension, the woman left the room at 10:38 p.m. and tried to burn an object in the hallway. “It appeared that she was wearing an explosive belt,” said the police, “was holding a suspicious object in her hand and was moving towards the emergency services.” Since the woman did not respond to being spoken to, the police officers used the firearm. to end the dangerous situation. According to the report, the woman suffered serious injuries as a result of the gunshots. Rescue workers treated her immediately.
The police said that it later emerged following an investigation by specialists from the LKA NRW that the belt was a dummy.
During the course of the operation, our editorial team received information that the woman’s apartment in Eschweiler-Röhe had burned out in the followingnoon. The police confirmed the information and explained that the owner of the apartment was suspected of setting the fire herself. Investigators found a letter that was allegedly deposited, according to the Cologne police.
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Whether the woman was undoubtedly responsible for the fire in the bed area of the Luisenhospital, which was reported to the fire department around 5 p.m., might not be conclusively clarified late on Monday evening. There was also information that she was said to have ignited a smoke pot or pyrotechnics. That’s what the police report said. These questions will be examined in more detail over the course of Tuesday, it was announced following the operation.
A message from the city of Aachen from the fire department at 10:53 p.m. definitely read like this: “The fire in the bed area of the Luisenhospital has been extinguished, the area is smoke-free.” The city spoke of a major operation on site involving 396 people ( without police forces), this included, in addition to the forces on site, other standbys in the area as well as the 30-person staff in the fire department’s premises. According to the city, 73 affected people from the Luisenhospital were cared for. Further: “Four people from the intensive care unit have to be transported to other hospitals. 270 patients can stay in hospital. The emergency pastoral care is represented by eleven people.”
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The situation in and around the Luisenhospital was extremely tense for hours. A large number of police and fire departments had been on site since the followingnoon hours of Monday. Observers counted around 100 emergency vehicles, and our reporters on site spoke of an operation of extraordinary proportions. Emergency vehicles lined up along the pit pit. Police special operations teams also arrived on site early and prepared for their operation with heavy security equipment. The area around the boxing pit was closed.
In the evening, partially distraught people might be seen in front of the building being led out of the building. Patients were reportedly transferred to other hospitals. Many residents and onlookers gathered behind barriers.
At X, formerly Twitter, The police called on people to avoid the area for hours. There were also restrictions on rail traffic. The railway line runs behind the Luisenhospital.
Tweet from the Aachen police regarding the large-scale operation at the Luisenhospital. Photo: Screenshot X
The Luisenhospital has over 1,500 employees, 378 beds and over 17,000 medical cases per year. Reactions from the hospital to the extraordinary and threatening situation on Monday as well as further details from the police and fire brigade are expected later on Tuesday.
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