crime
After rampage at vocational college – suspect arrested
Amok on Friday: Emergency vehicles are in front of the vocational college in Bielefeld. Photo: Christian Müller/dpa
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On the last day of school before the summer holidays, a teacher in Bielefeld suddenly heard shots in the school building. The police prepare for an amok rampage – but in the end the operation ends unscathed.
After shots were fired at a vocational college in Bielefeld, the police arrested a 20-year-old suspect, but there were no injuries. A police spokesman said on Friday that after the first indications of the shots being fired in the school building, it had to be assumed that there was a rampage.
The 20-year-old had a dagger, a Molotov cocktail and two blank guns with him. But the situation was quickly under control. There are no indications of accomplices.
A teacher alerted the police around noon and reported gunshots in the building. Although the building was largely empty on the last day of school before the holidays, the police arrived in large numbers, and special forces were added. The suspect fled to a roof and was arrested there by the SEK, said the police spokesman.
The motives of the 20-year-old for his act must now be determined, the police said. It was initially unclear whether he was a student at the vocational college.