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Wuppertal (dpa / lnw) - Almost a year after the fatal shots by police officers on a 25-year-old in Wuppertal, the investigations against the officials have ceased.
This was announced by a spokesman for the Wuppertal public prosecutor's office on dpa request.
According to the investigation, the officers were attacked by the man with a hammer and fired in self-defense.
Previously, they had fired several warning shots in vain.
A total of eleven shots were fired from two police weapons.
The 25-year-old was hit by six bullets.
Both officers shot him three times each.
One or two of the hits were fatal, according to forensic medicine.
Both officers suffered minor injuries during the operation.
An officer’s abrasions were believed to have been caused by a hammer blow in the direction of his head.
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Several passers-by observed the event.
The situation was reconstructed with them at an on-site appointment.
Accordingly, the officials could not be criminally accused: "They were very likely to use their firearms."
The 25-year-old had knocked off the exterior mirrors of several cars with a hammer in December last year.
Witnesses had alerted the police.
The arriving police officers are said to have been attacked by the 25-year-old with a hammer.
He died later in hospital.
The police had previously noticed him through criminal acts.
For reasons of neutrality, the Hagen police had taken over the investigation against the officers.