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meIt was still completely dark when shots rang out in Berlin-Kreuzberg early on Boxing Day. Four men were seriously injured, as the Berlin police and the prosecutor announced on Saturday. According to current knowledge, residents alerted the police, who had heard the gunshots on Stresemannstrasse, in the immediate vicinity of the SPD party headquarters.
Emergency services found three injured at the alleged crime scene. A fourth injured man jumped into the nearby Landwehr Canal, from where rescuers pulled him out. The police were on duty all the time. The prosecution assumes that the shooting was a crime in the context of organized crime.
The injured, twice 30, 39 and 42 years old each, came according to the information to receive treatment in hospitals, where they were hospitalized. The first homicide commission has started the further investigation.
SEK looking for an apartment
The Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Twitter: “Due to the shooting in the organized crime environment, we are investigating several suspects of attempted murder together with a murder commission of the Berlin Police and we are examining the request for arrest warrants.” A spokesman for the prosecutor said that it was happening People who belonged to the group of four injured. How many there were, he did not say.
Several dozen police officers, some of them heavily armed, were on duty at the scene before dawn. A helicopter also flew over the capital in search of people involved. At first there were no arrests.
In the afternoon, SEK officers were also at the scene, a police spokesman confirmed. They entered a building with weapons at the ready and searched an apartment, as reported on the spot by a photographer for the German press agency. According to the police, the SEK operation ended in the late afternoon and the operation as a whole was still continuing.
The police investigate for hours at the scene
The crime scene appears to be at a front door on Stresemannstraße. Police cordoned off the area extensively, mostly to obtain evidence. According to a police spokesman, there were also police technicians at the scene. At Stresemannstrasse 23, opposite the SPD party headquarters, there was a bullet hole in a door, as reported by the dpa photographer, not far from another bullet hole in a glass door. The path in front of the alleged crime scene was cordoned off.
Police investigate the crime scene for hours throughout Saturday.
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A spokesman for the Berlin fire brigade said on Saturday that an emergency call was received at 3.54 am due to the shooting in Kreuzberg. The fire department was on the scene with a large number, several ambulances, three emergency medics and a senior emergency physician. The mission ended early in the morning. Unlike the police, who spent hours investigating the crime scene all Saturday. The background to the shooting is not yet known, a police spokesman said late in the afternoon. The investigation continued.
Police cordoned off the area around the crime scene.
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In Berlin there are always disputes between individual groups or families. More recently, after a 29-year-old was shot in Kreuzberg, there was an attack by about 10 men on a ground-floor apartment and a car.
In February, a shooting at Berlin’s Tempodrom on Möckernstrasse, not far from the current crime scene, caused a sensation with one dead and four injured. The police were on duty with a large contingent, including homicide. An arrest warrant for involuntary manslaughter was issued against a 48-year-old man who reportedly shot a 42-year-old man and was seriously injured in the confrontation.
