{"id":149994,"date":"2025-06-01T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149994\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:27:13","slug":"a-man-opens-fire-on-german-police-near-the-czech-border-and-is-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149994\/","title":{"rendered":"A man opens fire on German police near the Czech border and is shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BERLIN &#8212; A man was fatally shot near Germany&#8217;s border with the Czech Republic after a federal police patrol stopped his car for a check and he fired at officers, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting occurred on a road between Schirnding and M\u00fcnchenreuth, just inside Germany, on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bavarian police said the driver left his car and fired at the officers, who returned fire and fatally wounded him. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver, who was alone in the car, was identified as a 47-year-old Iranian who had lived in the Mannheim area of southwestern Germany for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police believe he was returning from a trip to the Czech Republic to buy drugs, as he was carrying a \u201clow three-digit gram\u201d quantity of crystal meth, according to a Bavarian police statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN &#8212; A man was fatally shot near Germany&#8217;s border with the Czech Republic after a federal police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[64132,3907,2000,299,12264,4179,1824,2003,14617,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-149994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-64132","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-fires","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114609287573557854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}