Several bullet holes in the stolen van, two projectiles hit a 14-year-old suspect. The spectacular chase last Friday in the Tyrolean lowlands, which ultimately culminated in shots being fired in St. Johann (Kitzbühel district), continues to cause heated debates. Not least because the lawyer for the injured boy recently criticized the police’s actions. On Tuesday afternoon, the Tyrolean police leadership spoke up and took a position.
“The State Police Directorate Tyrol has the greatest understanding for the current legitimate discussions and questions in the public discourse. However, we cannot understand if the police officers concerned, the investigators and the police in general are exposed to massive insults, defamation and factual prejudices on social media (and sometimes also in personal e-mails),” says a broadcast “Latest terminology” The police also have no understanding for various statements by the lawyer of the injured youth. Terms such as “killer commando” are “top notch” and “are rejected in the strongest possible terms.” The presumption of innocence also applies to police officers, as to any other citizen, until proven otherwise. Tyrolean police officers not only do excellent work every day , but would have to reckon with being exposed to life-threatening situations with every deployment. Therefore, the police invest a lot of effort and resources in training and in operational training, in the context of which behavior in dangerous situations is trained in detail criminal investigations by the Carinthian State Criminal Police Office, which is independent of the LPD Tyrol and headed by the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office, and is being completely cleared up.” I wish the affected colleagues a lot of strength to cope with this exceptional psychological situation and I also wish the injured young man a speedy and good recovery.” Chase over 30 kilometers The operation on the tracks in the station area in St. Johann was a wild chase from Wörgl (Kufstein district ) from previous. There, three boys had fled in the course of a driver and vehicle check with the car that had apparently been stolen two days earlier. The panel van was then traveling at excessive speed on Loferer Straße in the direction of St. Johann and performed a number of risky overtaking manoeuvres. In the Going area, according to the executive, the driver even drove towards a roadblock or police car, but steered in at the last moment and finally came back onto the road via an embankment. The other two young people – a 14-year-old Austrian and a Russian (13) – were arrested in the vicinity by the Cobra task force. The police in Wörgl arrested two other 13-year-olds. Apparently, they had left the vehicle before the control attempt there.
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