A police officer mistakenly shot at troops taking part in a large-scale Bundeswehr training exercise in the southern German city of Erding, injuring a soldier.
Bavarian police said they had been responding to reports of a man carrying a weapon and deployed multiple units to the southeast of Erding, including a helicopter, early on Wednesday evening.
WTF is the Bundeswehr doing? How are they just doing drills without informing the local police beforehand in a country where open carrying weapons is illegal. Super lucky that nobody died.
According to German daily Bild, the military police fired practice ammunition at the arriving police officers, believing this was part of the military exercise.
Also very odd decision by that person to just assume that. You are in a public space, not a training facility.
WTF is the Bundeswehr doing? How are they just doing drills without informing the local police beforehand in a country where open carrying weapons is illegal. Super lucky that nobody died.
Also very odd decision by that person to just assume that. You are in a public space, not a training facility.
So it doesnt say in this article, but the police and the local population werel informed weeks before.
Not sure why the Bundeswehr fired at the policemen (albeit practicd ammunition) – weird, but the police is incompetent here.
Edit: Grammar