I essayed a piece yesterday to talk over the murder of two German police, and there's enough 'to close' the story today.
Around 6 to 7 PM last night, the two suspects gave up, and were apprehended by the police. Both are German, and are NOT members of any crime clan or radical group.
To describe the entire event? I've looked over ten different sources and will try to tell the basic story.
Cop patrol was in the vicinity of Kusel (20 miles NW of Kaiserslautern, very rural area) at 4 AM.....male and female cop (female was a police trainee). Standard patrol.
They come around some curve and there's two vehicles pulled off, with lights up. Cops stop, and view the situation. Animal on the back of some vehicle....deer. Here are two guys....one wearing a butcher's apron and it appears to be a field-butcher situation (illegal by German standards). One is a hunter....the other guy (butcher's apron) is a failed businessman for the most part.
No one can say what set off the shooting, but the two police are killed (one never even got a chance to pull her pistol out).
From what I can see....the hunter had a deer and the 2nd guy had done a good bit of butchering in his life. But the story gets interesting....this second guy had inherited a bakery around a dozen years ago (5th generation baker), and ran the operation into the ground. He's considered a difficult individual. The bakery went bankrupt two years ago, and sits empty now.
This guy was continually taken into labor court because of his business practices with fired personnel. Adding to the mess....when running the bakery....he had these trucks often stolen and burned to the ground.....with insurance paying off the vehicle. A lot of speculation there but never a real investigation.
Why the sudden reaction and the necessity of killing the two police? Mostly unknown. Maybe with the bankruptcy business, and the failures in life.....he might have been near a breakdown and just reacted in this fashion to halt another problem.
Court now? I doubt if the case comes up for at least eight months. The guy in the butcher apron, who fired the weapon, will face maximum charges. The second guy will be charged to some degree....probably doing at least ten years.
All of this over a field-butcher type event on the side of the road in a rural area? Yeah. If the two idiots had driven a kilometer or two off into the woods....down some trail....there would have been no chance of a police patrol. Why they had to set this up near the pavement area....makes no sense.
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