2023-05-11 15:57:59
NAfter the explosion in an apartment in a high-rise building in Ratingen with several injured emergency services, the police caught the owner of the apartment. Special forces stormed the apartment and arrested the 57-year-old man, said a police spokeswoman on site on Thursday.
The man was taken to a hospital with “severe injuries”. The police also found a body in his apartment, as North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) reported on Thursday in the interior committee of the Düsseldorf state parliament. The minister could not say anything about the identity. The man had previously been in the apartment with his mother. According to dpa information, the person found dead died a long time ago.
Special forces had stormed the apartment and arrested the approximately 60-year-old man, a police spokeswoman in Ratingen said. At around 11:15 a.m. there was an explosion in the high-rise apartment after the son held something up at the door for the emergency services, Reul said. Then there was a detonation.
Ten firefighters and two police officers were injured, some seriously. “There are extremely dangerous developments to be feared,” said Reul. Research on social media had shown that the man “was mentally in the corona denier environment”.
Reporter reports of popping noises
The situation had been unclear for hours before the arrest. Special forces and snipers were on site. Banging noises could be heard again and again, as a dpa reporter reported on Thursday afternoon. The scene was cordoned off over a wide area.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Reul reported that around ten in the morning the homeowners’ association informed the police that a resident’s mailbox was overflowing. The police then called the fire brigade on site to open the door. A mother lives in the apartment with her son. There was fire in the room. The son triggered a detonation with an object that has not yet been identified.
Smoke came from an apartment on the top floor of the skyscraper, as a dpa reporter reported. Police special forces could be seen on the roof above the affected apartment, on the balconies next to it and on the balconies in the neighboring house.
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