Saarland Police arrested a 32-year-old man on Monday afternoon as a suspect in the murder of two policemen who, as part of a routine patrol, conducted a check on a vehicle which was found to be transporting illegal game.
Earlier, in the Rhineland Palatinate, the main suspect, 38-year-old Andreas Johannes Schmidt, from Essex, had been arrested and investigations are continuing into the possibility that there were more perpetrators.
The unfortunate officers, a 24-year-old woman who was still attending the police academy and a 29-year-old man, attempted to check the perpetrators' car in the Cusel area, near Kaiserslautern, and, they told their agency, discovered prey in the luggage compartment.
A short time later they were heard on the radio shouting "they're shooting at us, they're shooting at us! When reinforcements arrived, the woman was already dead, while her colleague expired a few hours later.
Both were wearing bulletproof vests and had head injuries. One of the perpetrators had inadvertently left personal documents at the scene, presumably from a police check.
Source: CNA
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