Police are pursuing investigations after the shots in Duisburg

After the shooting with four injured in Duisburg, the 15 suspects are free again, and there was no further escalation or continuation of the conflict on Friday night. A spokesman for the public prosecutor said that the people temporarily taken into custody were released on Thursday evening after they had been processed by the police.

According to current knowledge, the shots fired at the Altmarkt in the Hamborn district of Duisburg can be traced back to an escalated conflict between the Hells Angels rock group and a Turkish-Arab clan. Up to 100 people from both camps are said to have been involved in the conflict. A 15-strong murder commission and prosecutors experienced in dealing with clan crime are in the process of examining the background to the bloody confrontation on Wednesday evening with two seriously and two slightly injured.

Both North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) and Duisburg’s police chief Alexander Dierselhuis spoke of a “shooting” or an “exchange of fire” the day after the more than 30 shots were fired. According to the police, they were able to secure 19 cartridge cases. It is still unclear who shot whom and for what reason. A police spokeswoman for the German Press Agency reported on Friday that the many tracks are being evaluated and attempts are being made to understand the shooting angles and the like. The night passed without any new incidents. There have been no further arrests so far.

The public prosecutor’s office could neither confirm nor deny whether the first interrogations confirmed the fears that the temporarily arrested persons were not particularly cooperative and not willing to speak out. “We can’t say anything about that at the moment,” said a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office. According to Duisburg’s police chief, since the video material is of good quality, there are definitely other “investigative approaches, even without statements”.

Chief Public Prosecutor Christina Wehner emphasized that prosecutors specializing in rocker and clan crime were assigned to the case. “The perpetrators should not feel safe. We are pursuing the criminal offenses vigorously and with everything the rule of law can muster.”

Mayor Sören Link, who was born in the Duisburg-Hamborn district, said he was “shocked and sad”. “Here, clashes in the rocker and clan milieu were carried out on the open street, uninvolved people were put in mortal danger. An entire district was terrified.” The crimes must be clarified down to the last detail and must not be repeated, said the SPD politician.

Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) announced the continuation of the fight against clan crime. Although the word also triggers concerns about stigmatization in some people, he said on Friday in the WDR 5 “Morgenecho”. “Nevertheless, you have to call things by their names and fight clan crime.” Reul has “brought a lot forward” in internal security in recent years, NRW has “objectively become safer,” says Wüst: “Nevertheless, you can see it in case there is still a lot to do and you have to keep at it.”

Here is the photo gallery: Four injured after shots in Duisburg-Hamborn