“A shooting at a watch store in Cologne, Germany, took place on Saturday, with police investigating a possible connection to a recent series of explosions in the city. Source: “European Truth” with reference to DPA Details: According to preliminary information, shortly after 04:00 a.m. on Saturday, an unknown person fired more than 20 shots from an automatic weapon at the facade of a building in Cologne’s Neel district and then fled.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
A shooting at a watch store in Cologne, Germany, took place on Saturday, with police investigating a possible connection to a recent series of explosions in the city.
Source: “European Truth” with reference to DPA
Details: According to preliminary reports, shortly after 04:00 a.m. on Saturday, an unknown person fired more than 20 shots from an automatic weapon at the facade of a building in Cologne’s Neel district before fleeing. No one was hurt as a result.
A spokesman for the Cologne police said that shell casings were found in front of the building.
Although nothing is known for certain about the background of the incident, the prosecutor and the police believe that it is connected to organized crime, as well as to two recent explosions in the center of Cologne.
Currently, the investigation believes that the crimes may be related to disputes between rival criminal groups – one of them concerns the disappearance of approximately 300 kilograms of cannabis.
Cologne’s head of criminal investigations, Michael Esser, said this week that the city’s police “are facing serious challenges as a result of unprecedented incidents of violence and serious crimes that have never happened before.”
What preceded: An explosion rocked the entrance to the Vanity Club restaurant and club in Cologne at the beginning of the week, injuring one person.