In Hattenhofen in Baden-Württemberg, an FDP local politician was injured by several shots. The shots were fired from the outside through a window early Sunday morning, police and prosecutors said on Monday. The 65-year-old district councilor was seriously injured and had already been operated on, but he was not in mortal danger.
The background to the crime is completely unclear, and there is no trace of the unknown shooter or shooters. The police formed a special commission. She is also examining a possible connection to other shots that have been fired in other places in Baden-Württemberg in the past few weeks.
In a letter to the members of the district council, Göppingen’s District Administrator Edgar Wolff said he was “deeply concerned and shocked by this act of violence”. FDP parliamentary group leader Hans-Ulrich Rülke said in a first statement about the shots in the community of around 3,000 inhabitants in the foothills of the Alb: “I am appalled by the terrible news.” His thoughts are now with the local politician and his family.
A special commission is currently investigating the shots at a man in Stuttgart. He was shot and seriously injured by strangers in front of a restaurant in the Zuffenhausen district later on Friday evening. The shots are reminiscent of similar incidents in Plochingen (Esslingen district) and Eislingen (Göppingen district). There, too, individuals were shot and seriously injured by unknown persons.
