German police shoot 22 people dead in 2024, highest toll this century

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2025-01-07

Berlin (dpa) - A record 22 people were shot dead by German police in 2024, a dpa analysis found on Tuesday, representing the highest number of casualties in police shootings this century. The figure - collected in a dpa analysis of police reports - was more than double that of previous years, with 10 people shot dead by German police in 2023, 11 in 2022 and eight in 2021. In the majority of cases, the fatal shots were fired in situations in which......

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