Dortmund · NW
Customer disarms suspected robber at Dortmund supermarket
At a supermarket on Rahmer Straße in Dortmund, a 44-year-old man allegedly threatened a 34-year-old cashier with a knife on Monday evening and said he intended to rob the store. A 39-year-old customer intervened, disarmed the man and held him on the ground until police arrived. Nobody was injured. Police officers arrested the suspect inside the supermarket, seized the knife and opened criminal proceedings for aggravated robbery. After a blood sample was taken, the man was admitted to a psychiatric clinic.
Source: www.presseportal.de
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- Incident date
- Confirmed fatalities
- Not separately confirmed
- LocationView on map
- Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Category
- Robbery and extortion
- Injury information
- Not stated
- Confirmed injured persons
- Not separately confirmed
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