In the Lower Saxon Uslar a dispute among neighbors has escalated. According to the Northeim police, child noise was the reason why one neighbor threatened the other with a crossbow while he fought with pepper spray.
One woman and three children had to be hospitalized with eye irritation. The man who threatened his neighbor with a crossbow was taken into custody by police officers.
Policemen had been called on Monday night for an altercation to the apartment building. Locally, they found that a 31-year-old with a child in his arms threatened a neighbor with a crossbow. This sat down in front of the officials with tear gas to the defense.
The officials had managed to calm the situation quickly. They took the man with the crossbow into custody. He is awaiting trial for threats and violations of the weapons law. The investigation was that a disturbance of the peace by children in the stairwell, the trigger for the tangible dispute.