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Hanau (dpa) - Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) has emphasized the quick action of the emergency services in the racially motivated attack after reports about a possibly poorly staffed police emergency call in Hanau.
It is important that the police were very close to the crime scenes at night, Beuth told the program “17:30 SAT.1 Live”.
The Federal Prosecutor General will then explain the question of how the emergency call center was manned and how many calls were made.
The magazine “Monitor”, the Hessischer Rundfunk and the news magazine “Spiegel” had previously reported that on the night of the attack on February 19 last year the police emergency number was overloaded and apparently insufficiently manned.
According to the research, documentation of the emergency calls shows that five calls to the emergency number 110 should have been registered between 9:55 p.m. and 10:09 p.m.
Witnesses reported that the 110 could not be reached.
The chairman of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, Sebastian Fiedler, said “Monitor” that it was “not unlikely” that with more knowledge of witnesses, one would “have had the opportunity to prevent subsequent acts”.
The responsible police headquarters in Offenbach initially did not comment on the report at the request of the German Press Agency.
On February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot nine people with foreign roots in Hanau.
The man had previously posted pamphlets and videos of conspiracy theories and racist views on the Internet.
After the fact, the 43-year-old is also said to have killed his mother before killing himself.
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