Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - In the Hanau investigative committee of the Hessian state parliament, several police officers reported a locked emergency exit door at one of the crime scenes on the night of the crime. However, at the time he was not aware that the door was an emergency exit, a 36-year-old inspector said on Monday as a witness in Wiesbaden. Among other things, the officer had made a sketch of the crime scene in the Arena Bar on the night of the crime. He tested this door and it didn't open.
On February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot nine people in Hanau for racist motives. Then he killed his mother and himself. The committee of inquiry should clarify whether there was a failure of the authorities around the crime. Survivors and relatives of one of the victims had raised allegations that an emergency exit at a crime scene was closed and an escape route was blocked.
A 51-year-old police chief inspector said as a witness in the investigative committee that she checked the door the day after the attack and found that it was locked. The officer had been at the scene of the crime in the Arena Bar for several hours on February 20, 2020 - in her own words, primarily as a contact person for forensics or forensic pathologists.
