Berlin
Knife stabs in a shopping center – the alleged perpetrator turns himself in
During a dispute between two men in this shopping center in Berlin, one of the two men was fatally injured with a knife. photo
© Paul Zinken/dpa
Two men argue – a little later one of the two is critically injured and the other flees. Much is still unclear about the fact in a Berlin shopping center.
A man is said to have fatally injured a 28-year-old with a knife in a shopping center in Berlin. A police spokesman said on Monday that there was a dispute between the two men in the “Staaken Center” shopping center in the Spandau district. The injured man was taken to a hospital by paramedics, where he underwent emergency surgery. “There is danger to life.” According to the spokesman, the man’s condition was still critical in the afternoon.
The 30-year-old alleged perpetrator was initially volatile. The police wrote him out for an immediate manhunt. A little later the all clear: the suspect had turned himself in at a police station, said the police spokesman. He had been arrested. The spokesman initially gave no information about the background to the crime. It was also unclear whether the men knew each other. The homicide commission took over the investigation into an attempted homicide.
The Staaken Center was closed after the incident. The entrance was cordoned off, the criminal police and forensics worked at the crime scene, and onlookers gathered around the center. According to the website, the small shopping center has around 50 shops on 7,000 square meters of retail space. It is described as a “service and local supply center”.