Crime - Police find body in Altdorf - danger situation ended
After hours of searching for an armed man in Altdorf near Nuremberg, the police found a deceased man. There is no longer an immediate danger, the Mittelfranken Police Headquarters announced via X.
The charred body of the man was reportedly found in close proximity to a firearm in a garden house on the property where the events of the afternoon had taken place. The incident command also lifted the nearby A3 roadblock following the discovery of the body.
In the southern part of the Mittelfranken commune, there was a fire alarm in the afternoon. A house was on fire, as well as a nearby forest. When the fire department arrived to put out the fire, according to "nordbayern.de", a firefighter was reportedly threatened with a firearm. This was not officially confirmed.
- The armed man the police were searching for in Altdorf is believed to be from Bavaria, as it's located in the southern part of Germany.
- Despite finding the deceased man and a firearm, the Mittelfranken Police Headquarters in Germany assured the public that the situation is no longer considered dangerous.
- Interestingly, a separate danger situation arose in the same Mittelfranken commune later in the day, involving a fire and a perceived threat with a firearm towards a firefighter in Middle Franconia.
- The city of Nuremberg, known as one of the major cities in Middle Franconia, Germany, was not directly affected by the armed man search or the subsequent danger situation, but it shares boundaries with the affected area in Mittelfranken.
