Dülmen · NW
Man threatens police officers in Dülmen with kitchen knife
Early on Friday, a man threatened police officers with a kitchen knife measuring about ten centimetres in a field near Weddern in Dülmen. A witness had alerted police to the person at around 05:40. The man initially ignored officers' orders to drop the knife and held it threateningly towards them. After police fired a warning shot into the air, he put the knife down. Officers handcuffed him and found no further dangerous items during a search. Nobody was injured. Following a medical examination, the local authority ordered his admission to a psychiatric hospital. Police said his identity had not yet been conclusively established.
Source: www.presseportal.de
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- Confirmed fatalities
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- LocationView on map
- Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Category
- Knife threats
- Injury information
- Not stated
- Confirmed injured persons
- Not separately confirmed
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