According to the police, the FDP local politician Georg Gallus was shot at on Sunday night in Hattenhofen (Göppingen district). He was seriously injured.
On the night of Sunday, the FDP district councilor and farmer Georg Gallus junior was injured by shots. The 65-year-old was taken to a clinic, police and prosecutors said. Accordingly, Gallus was operated in the clinic, there is no danger to life. The police have formed a special commission to investigate the crime in Hattenhofen.
Gunshots from outside through a window
According to police, the shots were most likely fired from outside through a window. The farmer was in his apartment when the shots were fired. There is still no trace of the shooter. The district administrator of the Göppingen district Edgar Wolff (free voters) expressed his dismay in a statement. He hopes that the background to the crime will be cleared up quickly. He asked to refrain from speculation. The mayor of the community of Hattenhofen with 3,000 inhabitants, Jochen Reutter, (independent) expressed his dismay. The fact is unbelievable, he hopes for a quick clarification by the investigators. According to the mayor’s assessment, Georg Gallus is a regional politician of old hat and grain, pugnacious and a convinced democrat.
The victim’s father was a well-known FDP politician
Georg Gallus’ father, who died in 2021, was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Vice-President of the BW-FDP. The FDP parliamentary group leader in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, Hans-Ulrich Rülke, expressed his horror at the act in the morning. His thoughts are now with the local politician and his family.
Repeated shots in the Stuttgart area
The act is part of a series of similar incidents in the greater Stuttgart area. A man was shot in front of a restaurant in the Zuffenhausen district on Friday. The police then set up a special commission. A shot had already been fired on the same street in July 2022. According to the police, a man shot out of a moving car in front of a restaurant at a group of men. Nobody was injured then.
The public prosecutor’s office and police do not rule out a connection with similar incidents in Plochingen (Esslingen district) and Eislingen (Göppingen district) in the Zuffenhausen case. A man and a woman were shot and injured on the street in February.