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.
Not sure why the Bundeswehr fired at the policemen (albeit practice ammunition)
He thought they were part of the excersize. If you know The Enemy is wearing local police uniform, and some people wearing local police uniform come at you, telling you to drop your weapon, the reaction makes a lot of sense.
What doesn’t make sense is why that specific cop didn’t know what was going on.
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.
While this is a huge WTF, take everything that comes from BILD with a mountain of salt until confirmed by a reputable source.
So it doesnt say in this article, but the police and the local population were informed weeks before.
Not sure why the Bundeswehr fired at the policemen (albeit practice ammunition) – weird, but the police is incompetent here.
Edit: Grammar
He thought they were part of the excersize. If you know The Enemy is wearing local police uniform, and some people wearing local police uniform come at you, telling you to drop your weapon, the reaction makes a lot of sense.
What doesn’t make sense is why that specific cop didn’t know what was going on.
Oh ok then its just silly by everyone yeah