Criminality - Man shot at a man during police intervention -Paramedic threatenered
A 61-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound early in the morning during a police operation in the middle Hessian town of Grünberg. According to the police and the prosecutor's office in Gießen, family members had reportedly called an ambulance earlier due to the man inflicting life-threatening injuries on himself. The paramedics, who were threatened by the man with a knife, alerted the police, who arrived with several patrols.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the 61-year-old had brandished a knife in his apartment in the Harbach district of Grünberg. One officer then shot the man. The number of shots fired is still under investigation, a police spokesperson said. The paramedics had treated the man, who was hit in the thigh. The gunshot wound was not life-threatening.
The man is being treated in the hospital, and there is no longer any danger to his life due to the previously existing injury, the police spokesperson added. The nature of the pre-existing injury was not disclosed. The background of the incident is unclear, and the investigation into it is ongoing.
The police operation in Grünberg was led by officers from the local police force and the Gießen Public Prosecutor's Office due to reports of self-inflicted injuries. The 61-year-old man, now in the hospital, was initially threatening paramedics with a knife before being shot by an officer during the police operation in Hesse. The shooting injury, while not life-threatening, occurred in the man's thigh after the officer intervened due to his brandishing of a knife.
