Listed below are people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in Germany after reunification in the 2000s, whether or not in the line of duty, irrespective of reason or method. Included, too, are cases where individuals died in police custody due to applied techniques. Inclusion in the list implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. The listing simply documents occurrences of deaths and is not complete.

Statistics

+YearNumber killed by use of firearms (official statistics)Zahlen ab 1996 nach: Clemens Lorei: Statistiken im Zusammenhang mit dem polizeilichen Schusswaffeneinsatz , Verwaltungsfachhochschule Hessen – Fachbereich Polizei, Stand: 17. August 2014Zahlen von 1963 - 1969, nur BRD nach: Heiner Busch (Mitverfasser) et.al.: Die Polizei in der Bundesrepublik, Ausgabe von 1988Number killed by any means (counted)Number ofshots fired on personsZahlen von 1976 - 1983 nach: Heiner Busch (Mitverfasser) et.al.: Die Polizei in der Bundesrepublik, Ausgabe von 19882000 6522001 8682002 7422003 3442004 9632005 5372006 6At least 272007Otto Diederichs: Polizeiliche Todesschüsse 2007. In: Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP. Nr. 90, Jg. 2008, Heft 2, S. 75–78. 12Die Innenministerkonferenz hat in ihrer offiziellen Statistik für 2007 nur 10 polizeiliche Todesschüsse erfasst. Cilip hingegen hat auf Basis seiner Presseauswertung 12 Todesschüsse ermittelt. 462008Otto Diederichs: Polizeiliche Todesschüsse 2008. In: Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP. Nr. 93, Jg. 2009, Heft 2, S. 61–66. 10 372009Otto Diederichs: Polizeiliche Todesschüsse 2009. In: Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP. Nr. 96, Jg. 2010, Heft 2, S. 57–61. 6 57Cilip schreibt hierzu in dem Bericht für 2009 etwas unklar: „Insgesamt 57 Schüsse hat die deutsche Polizei im vergangenen Jahr auf Personen abgegeben; davon sind 24 als Schüsse gegen Sachen deklariert.“Sum 72 473

2000

Date(YYYY-MM-TT) Name Age Place State Summary of events2000-01-24N.N.52SchleidenNordrhein-WestfalenIn a state of confusion, a farmer and hunter in Dreiborn shot at a man and then at arriving police officers with a shotgun. An officer shot the farmer three times in the pelvis area, severing several arteries and his lungs. Despite several successful surgeries, the farmer died of a pulmonary embolism at a hospital on 20 February.2000-01-27N.N.40MengenBaden-WürttembergA robber fled a supermarket with 10,000 DM and was arrested by police shortly after. He pointed his gun at the officers, who proceeded to shoot him two times.2000-03-06N.N.24NürnbergBayernA man who had been previously convicted of several crimes and did not return from prison furlough attempted to leave a gas station in Biebelried without paying the bill of 40 DM. A scan of the licence plate also found that it had been stolen from a different vehicle. He led five squad cars on a high-speed chase for over 90 km across A3 and rammed one before crashing into a guardrail near . The man brandished a repainted toy gun at the officers when he exited and did not desist after several warnings, instead threatening two officers individually. One officer fired a shot, followed by a second firing two from his submachine gun, hitting the man in the back of the head.2000-04-04N.N.22MannheimBaden-WürttembergA Turkish man stabbed his mother and a neighbour during a family argument, leaving the former with life-threatening injuries. When police arrived, he fired at them through a window in their home with a gas pistol. Officers shot back and hit the man three times in the torso.2000-05-03N.N.28SigmaringenBaden-WürttembergDuring a foot chase, the pursued suspect threw a store sign on the ground, causing the officer behind him to trip. As he fell to the ground, a shot discharged from the officer's weapon, which fatally struck the suspect.2000-09-19Bui, Cong Khanh28UlmBaden-WürttembergA woman called police after she saw a man cradling a rifle on a path in the woods. Police confronted the man at the path and ordered him to drop the weapon, but this only made him walk towards the officers, who then shot the man 22 times - 9 of the rounds hit their target, who died of a single bullet to the chest. It was later found that the man, a Vietnamese national, had been reported missing from a care facility, revealing that he was mentally handicapped due to childhood meninigits and had actually been holding an airsoft assault rifle, described as "serving the function of a stuffed toy" for the deceased, which officers did not recognize in the dark and foggy weather. 2001

Date(YYYY-MM-TT) Name Age Place State Summary of events2001-01-26Amadi, John19DüsseldorfNordrhein-WestfalenA Nigerian asylum seeker was kicked, beaten, and choked by six narcotics agents during a drug raid at Worringer Platz. He subsequently stopped breathing and was declared dead at the scene. Police initially claimed that the man had swallowed small drug packages to hide evidence and died when one spontaneously ruptured without outside force, but an autopsy showed that no drugs were in his system.2001-01-29L., Mike23BerlinBerlinPolice learnt through a tapped telephone line of the planning of a supermarket robbery at Anton Saefkow-Platz. SEK placed officers around the location and waited for the robbers to show themselves. Three armed men eventually approached the market, but were confronted by SEK in the entry hall. The ringleader managed to escape and gun in hand, he charged towards two officers, with another officer firing at the robber three times, hitting him once in the side and once in the back. The gun was found to be a gas pistol. The surviving robbers and three accomplices, two of whom were minors, were later determined to have participated in six robberies the previous year, during which a cashier was injured by gas pistol fire.2001-03-07C., Ali25KölnNordrhein-WestfalenA convoy of police vehicles in Ehrenfeld was driving to respond to a call. At a red light, a Turkish man from Hürth stepped out of his car next to the convoy and threatened a bus of police officers behind him with a gun. Four police officers, aged 26 to 34, intervened, and shot five times at the driver, hitting him in the thigh, chin, shoulder, and face. He was able to run before collapsing on the rails of a nearby train station and died from a projectile piercing his brachial artery. The weapon turned out to have been a gas pistol, leading investigators to believe that the death was a case of suicide by cop, the first such case in Cologne. Despite official reports that the man's wife attested that the deceased had depression following the death of his mother, she denied ever saying this and accused police of unlawful killing.2001-06-12N.N.27OlpeNordrhein-WestfalenA man wielding a screwdriver announced his intention to kill himself on a public street. Three police officers were able to convince the man to reconsider and instead visit a doctor. He agreed and as he was being escorted by one of the officers, the other two following closely behind, the man stabbed the officer accompanying him in the head without warning, causing life-threatening injuries. Another officer used pepper spray on the man and then shot him in the arm, both to no effect, ending with him fatally shooting the man in the neck.2001-07-14Sarr Wegener, N'deye Mareame26AschaffenburgBayernPolice were alerted to the scene of an early hours custody dispute between a separated couple over their two-year-old child in which the husband requested full guardianship without his Senegalese wife's knowledge, after the husband called police when his wife confronted him about this at his apartment. The situation escalated when the wife refused to leave and instead grabbed a bread knife, stabbing one of the officers, cutting his hand. A second officer fired at her after a warning when she raised the knife to the first officer again, with reports conflicting on whether the shot struck her in the arm or her collar bone. Either way, bone shards hit the wife in the aorta, leading to her death from internal bleeding in a hospital just hours later. German African activist organizations blamed racism for the shooting, saying that lethal force would not have been used had the attacker been an ethnic German. It was also alleged that the recent change to hollow-point bullets made the usage of Bavarian police firearms more deadly than necessary. Both arguments were refuted in official police statements.2001-08-05N.N.40GruibingenBaden-WürttembergTwo police officers searched a furniture factory after an alarm was triggered. After finding no trace of a break-in, both officers left the building and shortly after, the submachine gun of one of the officer discharged and killed his colleague with a shot in the lung.2001-09-16N.N.34HamburgHamburgA 35-year-old police officer shot his wife six times with his sidearm in Bramfeld before killing himself. The wife was reanimated, but declared braindead at a hospital. The woman was having an affair and the officer had refused to divorce. 2001-12-08 John, Achidi 19 HamburgHamburg Police officers in St. Georg arrested Nigerian asylum seeker Michael Paul Nwabuisi, who was registered under the false identity as a Cameroonian national named Achidi John, because they assumend he was selling drugs and was a bodypacker. He was brought to the UKE, where a physician applied an emetic forcefully by a nasal tube. After the procedure he fell to the ground and died three days later from a combination of heart defect, the stress of the procedure, and the effects of cocaine, with a total of 45 pellets containing powdered and crack cocaine being recovered from his gastrointestinal track.2001-12-24N.N.44LeinburgBayernA man with a long record for violent crime broke into the apartment of his ex-girlfriend and threatened her and her boyfriend who were both able to escape him. He then set the apartment on fire and attempted to attack two police officers arriving on the floor, with a 30-year old officer firing six shots in the attacker's stomach, chest, and shoulder from a range of 1,50 meters.2001-XX-XXN.N.Nordrhein-WestfalenMost statistics list 8 police shooting deaths in 2001, but two, listed as having occurred on 5 March and 3 April 2001, appear identical in reporting and location to two shootings that occurred on 6 March and 4 April in 2000. It's noted that police records only list 5 shooting deaths for 2001, due to often excluding cases where accidental discharges caused death. A 2004 article mentions an investigation into a potential coverup of a July 2001 police operation in Hennef, in which a suspect reportedly shot himself after a gunfight, with suspicions that he may have actually been killed by SEK.2001-XX-XXN.N.Baden-WürttembergMost statistics list 8 police shooting deaths in 2001, but two, listed as having occurred on 5 March and 3 April 2001, appear identical in reporting and location to two shootings that occurred on 6 March and 4 April in 2000. It's noted that police records only list 5 shooting deaths for 2001, due to often excluding cases where accidental discharges caused death.

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