16-year-old surrenders after shooting at police officers in Göttingen
A 16-year-old wanted via European arrest warrant has surrendered following shots fired at a police officer in Göttingen. The teenager appeared with a lawyer at a police station.
Suspect teenager arrested after shooting in Göttingen
According to zeit.de, a 16-year-old wanted internationally has surrendered following shots fired at a police officer in Göttingen. The teenager appeared accompanied by a lawyer at a Göttingen police station, according to a statement by police and the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office. An European arrest warrant had previously been issued against him.
According to current investigative findings, the suspect allegedly fired several shots on Saturday during a dispute between two rival extended families on a street in Göttingen. A police officer was seriously injured in the incident.
Following the incident, investigators conducted large-scale search operations. Special forces searched three residential buildings in Göttingen and Gieboldehausen on Monday; mobile phones were seized in the process. A dedicated tip portal through which witnesses could upload videos and images was accessed more than 2,000 times.
Göttingen's police president Tanja Wulff-Bruhn described the arrest as "a clear signal for the functioning of our constitutional state". The "robust deployment measures" and intensive investigative work had led to the teenager surrendering of his own accord, she explained.
Source: Google News DE — Crime (de)