This was announced by authority spokeswoman Nina Bussek on Friday at the APA request. It is therefore clear that the officer who fired the fatal shot will not be held criminally responsible.
After extensive investigations – several expert reports were also obtained – the public prosecutor’s office came to the conclusion that there was a situation in self-defense and that the use of weapons was justified, said Bussek. The officers involved in the operation “behaved in accordance with the regulations” and firing the shot was justified to ward off a current attack.
The 67-year-old initially threatened her home help with a knife. The pensioner is said to have been mentally impaired, her adult representative had arranged for her home help, with which she allegedly did not agree. She probably didn’t want them in her apartment. In any case, the home help was intimidated or frightened by the woman armed with a kitchen knife and called the emergency services.
Woman made “aggressive impression”
The arriving officers are said to have threatened the 67-year-old at the apartment door with the kitchen knife, whereupon the special task force WEGA was called in. WEGA then knocked several times on the apartment door, which had meanwhile been closed again. When the 67-year-old opened up, she is said to have immediately attacked the officers with a knife. A police officer then used a taser and another shot the woman. The critically injured 67-year-old was taken to a hospital in a rescue helicopter, where she died.
According to the police, the 67-year-old is said to have held the knife over her head and made an aggressive impression. The taser was used and the shot from the service weapon happened almost simultaneously. For the public prosecutor’s office, the justified level of defense was neither exceeded nor was the defense obviously inappropriate.
The 67-year-old had been looked after by a social worker. After her death, he emphasized that the woman had an underlying mental illness and that there had already been several police operations where he had seen her aggressive. He would therefore have sought acute admission to a psychiatric facility in order to provide the pensioner with adequate treatment. That was rejected with reference to the current legal situation.
Source: Nachrichten
