Shots in Munich: LKA forms special commission and creates 3D model – Munich

The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (BLKA) is taking over the investigation into the terrorist attack on the Israeli Consulate General in Munich. A spokesman for the South German Newspaper confirmed. A special commission for “Karolinenplatz” is set up. The Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office and its Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) will continue to be in charge of the investigation.

At present, it is assumed that there is no longer a dangerous situation and that Emrah I. had no accomplices, according to BLKA spokesman, Chief Detective Inspector Alexander Groß. However, the environment of the suspected Islamist who was shot dead by police during the attempted attack on Thursday morning still needs to be investigated in detail. This also includes the possible radicalization of the Bosnian-born Austrian on the Internet.

In order to give investigators, but later also judges and lawyers, an insight into the course of events, a special department of the BLKA is currently creating a 3D reconstruction of the crime and the crime scene. Camera teams have already been on site for this. With this virtual reconstruction, investigators can “go into” the crime scene using VR glasses and possibly find details that have previously remained undiscovered. The BLKA has already created such 3D crime scene reconstructions for Auschwitz and for the racially motivated OEZ attack in 2016.

Numerous departments of the BLKA will be represented in the “Karolinenplatz” special commission. Spokesman Groß could not give an exact number of investigators this morning, but it will be an extensive task force. Eight years ago, the OEZ special commission consisted of up to 65 specialists from the BLKA and police headquarters. The core of the investigative team will be the BLKA’s state security department.

On Friday morning, Groß was unable to answer the question of how many shots police fired at the suspect. That is the task of the internal investigations department. The BLKA’s internal investigators always step in when police officers use their service weapons on duty. The last time this happened was two and a half weeks ago, when Munich police officers shot a woman in a supermarket who had attacked them with a knife. Internal investigations in such cases are standard practice, and the question is whether the police’s use of firearms was lawful. Emrah I. is said to have fired several shots at police officers on Thursday morning; the police spoke of an “exchange of fire” between the 18-year-old and the officers.

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