By Dirk Böttger and Matthias Lukaschewitsch
SEK operation on Friday evening in Berlin-Lichtenrade – a weapon is found on a tenant (86)!
At around 8:20 p.m., the special forces forcibly opened the door of an apartment on the first floor of a residential and commercial building on Groß-Ziethener Strasse.
In the apartment, the officers meet the elderly pensioner, who, according to a police spokesman, was “apparently in an exceptional psychological situation”. The fact is: According to the spokesman, the man had threatened to “kill himself.”
The sad reason: He was threatened with eviction in the coming days. It is currently unclear who alerted the police. The police spokesman could not say whether the man had reported his suicidal intentions to a neighbor or to the bailiff who had announced the eviction. Just this much: “The eviction was not scheduled for Friday.”
Apparently the situation got worse on Friday evening and the police decided to intervene because: “The man was a danger to himself and possibly to others if it turned out that he actually had a weapon. in the apartment,” said the spokesman.
Accordingly, a search warrant was applied for for the apartment, and the police then arrived with the SEK.
The SEK stormed the senior’s apartment on the first floor Photo: Spreepicture
The police actually found a “firearm,” as the spokesman confirmed. Apparently a pistol and ammunition. Apparently he wasn’t allowed to own it; he was being investigated for violating the weapons law. Following the operation, he was briefly taken into custody, led out of the house and then taken to a hospital.
The special operations team arrived with heavy equipment Photo: Spreepicture