The police cannot be accused of any negligence after the attack on February 19, 2019 on Kurt-Schumacher-Platz.

This is the result of preliminary investigations by the Hanau public prosecutor's office.

This investigated what happened after representatives of several survivors and relatives of victims, in whom the racist Tobias R. from Hanau shot nine people with a migration background, had filed a complaint.

Luise Glaser-Lotz

Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung for the Main-Kinzig district.

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The allegations related primarily to the death of 23-year-old Ferhat Unvar, who, according to the complainant, could possibly have been saved if the police had not failed to provide first aid to the seriously injured man.

As recorded by a surveillance camera, the man was shot in a kiosk with an attached bar.

Severely wounded, he dragged himself behind the counter of the kiosk, where he died.

Police officers are said not to have helped victims

With him Gökhan Gültekin, Mercedes Kierpacz and Ferhat Unvar lost their lives in the kiosk. Afterwards, R. murdered Said Nesar Hashemi and Hamza Kurtović in the bar. Shortly before, the perpetrator had shot three other people on the Heumarkt. One of his victims is Vili Viorel Paun, who followed Tobias R. from the Heumarkt and was murdered in his car on Kurt-Schumacher Platz.

According to the findings of the public prosecutor's office, the perpetrator had broken into the anteroom used as a kiosk at 10 p.m. and fired at those present. The police, who arrived a little later, apparently assumed that Unvar, who had been shot in the chest and stomach, was no longer alive, as was Kierpacz and Gültekin, is one allegation. The officers did not check Unvar's vital signs, nor did they alert the medical service to the young man. A police officer also stepped over the motionless body three times in order to shield the crime scene from glances by lowering a blind on the window without caring about Unvar, according to the inspection complaint.

According to the public prosecutor's office, the police arrived at 10:08 p.m. and the ambulance service arrived at 10:13 p.m. By the time the rescue workers arrived, the police had given the injured first aid. They had informed the paramedics that there were injuries in the arena bar and in the kiosk. The paramedics carried out "sightings" of the victims. The body of Unvar was initially overlooked because of the other bodies, which the policeman who tried to attach the privacy screen could not have known and therefore there was no reason for him to check Unvar's vital functions.

At 10:24 p.m., an emergency doctor found that the victim no longer had a pulse and was no longer breathing.

A section doctor from the Institute of Forensic Medicine had diagnosed that Unvar died one minute after the gun was fired, around 10:01 p.m.

Resuscitation attempts would therefore have had no prospect of success.

For this reason alone, the offense of failure to provide assistance is not fulfilled, judges the public prosecutor.

The preliminary investigations into failure to provide assistance have therefore been discontinued.

The public prosecutor's office had also stopped investigations into earlier criminal charges because the police's emergency number could not be reached sufficiently and an emergency exit was supposed to have been blocked.