2023-08-20 19:21:31
German authorities suspect two American soldiers of having killed a man on the night of Saturday to Sunday, after an altercation at a funfair in Wittlich, in the west of the country.
“After the murder of a 28-year-old man, two suspects were arrested (…). They are American soldiers, ”announced the police authorities of Trier via a press release. An altercation broke out between several people at the funfair in the small town of Wittlich, located between Trier and Koblenz. During this fight, “a 28-year-old man was stabbed to death”, and “four people, two men and two women, moved away from the crime scene”, reported the police, citing witnesses.
The American authorities in charge of the file
Among the members of the group on the run, quickly identified, “suspicions have grown against the two men, aged 25 and 26”, whom the police arrested and handed over to the American authorities. These will take care of the file, “in accordance with the statutes of NATO”, specified the police. “We have never experienced that here”, reacted this Sunday in the local press Joachim Rodenkirch, the mayor of Wittlich.
The American military presence in Germany has been a pillar of NATO defense since World War II. Today there are approximately 34,500 soldiers compared to 200,000 at the end of the Cold War.
Former US President Donald Trump, who criticized Germany for not contributing enough to the NATO budget and not financing its own defence, decided without consultation in July 2020 to redeploy around 12,000 outside Germany. soldiers. This project was finally abandoned by his successor Joe Biden.
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