Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – According to their own words, several police officers from the Hanau station did not know on the evening of the attack in February 2020 that unanswered emergency calls would not be forwarded. Both a 30-year-old police officer and a 41-year-old police officer said on Monday in the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the racially motivated murders in the state parliament in Wiesbaden that they were not aware of the lack of overflow.
“We did everything humanly possible that we were able to do to deal with the situation,” said the police officer. She doesn’t know what she and her colleagues could have done better. It would not have changed anything if more emergency calls could have been taken. The police officer answered the first emergency call shortly before 10 p.m.
On Monday, the investigative committee dealt with the incomplete availability of the emergency call on the evening of the crime. In fact, on February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot nine people with racist motives. Then he killed his mother and himself. The investigative committee should clarify whether there was a failure of the authorities before, during and after the crime.
