A 16-year-old refugee who was armed with a knife was shot by the police in Dortmund. Why were six bullets fired? And would missions against people in exceptional psychological situations have to be regulated in a fundamentally different way?
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Anna Fischhaber and Christian Wernicke
What exactly happened late Monday afternoon? Even 24 hours after the violent death of a 16-year-old refugee right next to the Sankt-Antonius-Kirche in an inner courtyard in the north of Dortmund, chief public prosecutor Carsten Dombert has more questions than answers. For example: “Why did the police carry a submachine gun during this operation?” And above all this: “What happened there in the yard before the shots were fired?”