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Hanau (dpa) - The public prosecutor's office initiated an investigation into the racially motivated attack on Thursday after reports of a possibly poorly staffed police emergency number in Hanau.
At the request of the German Press Agency, the Hanau authority announced that it was about the allegation that the police emergency number could not be reached on the day of the attack.
"As part of this procedure, the facts are first determined and then checked on this basis whether criminal behavior can be determined."
The media had reported that on the night of the attack, the police emergency number was overloaded and apparently insufficiently manned.
On February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot nine people with foreign roots in Hanau.
After the fact, the 43-year-old is also said to have killed his mother before killing himself.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210128-99-210979 / 2
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