A police car drives to an operation in Berlin with flashing lights (symbolic image) Photo: Monika Skolimowska/dpa
From the BZ editorial team
On Niemetzstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln, a man heard clicking and impact noises and called the police. Several tenants also discovered damaged windows. Who’s shooting here?
The police arrived around 5 p.m. on Monday afternoon and examined the crime scenes. After they were able to determine the apartment from which the shots were fired, the SEK arrived.
The emergency services entered the apartment of a 43-year-old on the 4th floor. There the SEK confiscated a CO2 weapon, associated gas cartridges and steel balls as well as a switchblade that was also found.
As a police spokesman said on Tuesday, the man probably shot from his room “at a wooden bird mounted on his balcony railing. However, some of the steel balls fired missed the target and hit the glass panes of the apartments opposite.”
Fortunately, no one was injured in the failed shooting exercises.
The man now has to answer for property damage and violations of the weapons law.