A good two and a half months after the shootout between Hells Angels rockers and members of a Turkish-Lebanese clan in Duisburg, new details have become known.
As can be seen from a response from the NRW state government to a small inquiry by the AfD parliamentary group in the state parliament on Wednesday, the Duisburg public prosecutor's office is currently investigating a total of 49 suspects after the shooting at the Altmarkt in Duisburg-Hamborn on May 4, 2022 - in particular for attempted murder , serious breach of the peace, dangerous bodily harm, damage to property and violations of the weapons law.
Up to 100 people were involved in the escalation in Duisburg.
According to police, at least 19 shots were fired, injuring four people.
15 men arrested on the day of the crime were released the next day.
The information is based on a report by the chief public prosecutor in Duisburg to the Ministry of Justice and the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia.
All those involved came “from the rocker and clan milieu classified as organized and seriously criminal”, who faced each other in two groups “in an aggressive basic attitude” on Hamborn’s Altmarkt.
The meeting then escalated into physical altercations between the rivals.
The exact reconstruction of the course of events, the identification of other people, both suspects and witnesses, as well as the background to the crime are still the subject of the ongoing extensive investigations.