After the shots at a farmer and FDP local politician in Hattenhofen in the foothills of the Alb, the man is now under police protection. As prosecutors and police announced on Tuesday, the man is still being treated in a clinic.
Investigators are not assuming a connection to shots elsewhere in the Southwest. “There are no concrete indications that there must be a connection,” said a spokesman for the Ulm public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday. For the case in Hattenhofen, the investigation group “EG Hof” was founded.
It is still being investigated whether the acts are related to one another. “The findings of the investigative groups are compared,” said the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office. He declined to comment on the further status of the investigation. It is therefore still unclear whether the district councilor was the victim of the attack on his remote farm because of his political work or for some other reason.
The farmer and FDP district councilor was shot through the window in his apartment early on Sunday morning. The 65-year-old man was seriously injured by several shots and operated on, but according to the public prosecutor’s office is not in mortal danger.
The farmer doesn’t seem to be a random victim. The perpetrator shot several times through the windows at the back of the remote farm and hit the honorary local politician. He must have approached the courtyard via the garden. Hattenhofen’s mayor Jochen Reutter finds it difficult to imagine a political motive. The man is a volunteer thoroughbred politician, said Reutter. The 65-year-old’s topics included savings bank transactions or the closure of a smaller clinic. “Personally, I can hardly imagine that such a deed would develop from this political activity. But that’s all just speculation,” said the mayor.
Communication from the police and prosecutors
