Overview
- Police say a resident fired multiple times from an apartment near Leipzig Central Station, which happened Thursday around 7:15 p.m., triggering an immediate large-scale response.
- Officers traced the shots to a flat on Gerberstraße and found the 26-year-old tenant nearby, who agreed to a search of his home.
- The search turned up a blank-firing pistol and matching ammunition, and investigators opened weapons-law cases against the tenant and a related 26-year-old German.
- No one was injured and police reported no danger to the public, with the operation winding down around midnight after hours of securing the area.
- Gerberstraße and part of Kurt-Schumacher-Straße were closed for about three hours, and trams on lines 9, 11 and 16 were diverted from the station’s platform E.