According to information from FOCUS online, the victim who was killed on the street in Spandau on Monday afternoon was a 19-year-old refugee. He therefore lived in a nearby refugee accommodation.
Berlin: Police are looking for two suspects
The Berlin police are now looking for two suspects, FOCUS learned online from police circles. The 19-year-old had been shot – possibly from a moving car.
It has now also been confirmed that the refugee was stabbed with a sharp object.
No evidence of connections to the clan milieu
The perpetrator or perpetrators were still on the run, the police situation center said early on Tuesday morning. Details about the background and the course of events are still not known, said a spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday. There is currently no evidence of connections to the clan milieu.
According to the police, several emergency calls were received on Monday at around 3:20 p.m., whereupon the officers and numerous emergency services rushed to the crime scene on the street Im Spektefeld/Hauskavelweg in the Falkenhagener Feld district. There they found a lifeless man on the sidewalk; resuscitation was unsuccessful.
The police assume it was a homicide and a homicide squad took over the case. However, officials remained tight-lipped about details. Residents claim to have heard at least two shots. There are single and multi-family homes, a school and a supermarket around the crime scene.
“Execution” with gunfire
The police and public prosecutor’s office called on possible witnesses to come forward and, if necessary, provide photos or cell phone videos. A special internet portal was activated in the evening at https://be.beiportal.de/hauskavelweg.
The police union (GdP) spoke of an “execution” with gunshots and located the perpetrators in the milieu of organized crime. “This public execution today in Spandau shows us what people in organized crime are capable of,” said the spokesman for the Berlin GdP regional association, Benjamin Jendro. In power struggles within organized crime, gun violence is no exception and a human life is no longer worth anything.
According to Jendro, there have been increasing clashes between members of feuding extended families, so-called clans, in the Spandau district in recent weeks. “Everyone knows that in these areas, even as a young guy, you are willing to do a lot to earn respect, recognition and power.” The term clan crime is controversial because, according to critics, it stigmatizes and discriminates against people with a migrant background based solely on their family affiliation and origin.
The crime scene was cordoned off with tape. In the evening, experts from the police and forensics were on duty in white protective clothing, as were numerous other police officers. The police also took aerial photos using drones. Emergency pastors were on site to look after shocked eyewitnesses and emergency services.
