After a large-scale operation by the police and fire brigade at an Aachen hospital, the public prosecutor’s office is investigating an attempted homicide against a woman suspect. The 65-year-old German was stopped with gunfire by police on Monday evening after an hours-long operation. Her life is not in danger and she is in hospital, said a spokeswoman for the Aachen public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday. It was initially unclear whether the investigators would apply for an arrest warrant. According to the public prosecutor’s office, what is being examined is whether the accused is mentally ill and is not or only partially responsible for her actions.
According to previous investigations, the 65-year-old barricaded herself in a hospital room on Monday afternoon with a weapon that was not sharp but looked real and was supposedly equipped with explosives. According to investigators, she had previously threatened an employee of the clinic. She then allegedly lit a pyrotechnic object and threw it into a hallway in the 350-bed hospital.
When she tried to burn an object in the hallway around 10:38 p.m. and didn’t respond to the police, the officers shot the woman, according to the statement, thus ending the dangerous situation. According to the public prosecutor’s office, she was “incapacitated.”
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The investigation has so far shown that the woman is said to have set a fire in her apartment on Monday around 2:50 p.m. Investigators found what appeared to be a letter there. She is said to have started the fire in the hospital around two hours later. According to initial investigations, the police assume that the 65-year-old may have had suicidal intentions.
Numerous police officers and more than a hundred firefighters with many vehicles were on duty in front of the Luisenhospital on Monday evening. The fire caused heavy smoke in the building, but could not be seen from the outside. The lights were still on in many of the clinic’s rooms and patients were occasionally looking out of the windows.
After the operation ended, operations in the clinic returned to normal on Tuesday. A hospital spokeswoman said the operation had already been carried out again. The resulting property damage would also be recorded. Patient care was assured and also secured during the operation.
