A police officer mistakenly shot at troops taking part in a large-scale Bundeswehr training exercise in the southern German city of Erding, injuring a soldier.
What I read is that because they were training for a scenario not at the front, the person who shot the blanks believed the person shooting the real bullets was part of the scenario.
Let’s hope he for some understandable reason thought was ‘the enemy is using police uniforms’ and not ‘the police chose the side of the enemy’. Clearly the threat they practice for is a Russian invasion, not a civil uprising.
What I read is that because they were training for a scenario not at the front, the person who shot the blanks believed the person shooting the real bullets was part of the scenario.
Let’s hope he for some understandable reason thought was ‘the enemy is using police uniforms’ and not ‘the police chose the side of the enemy’. Clearly the threat they practice for is a Russian invasion, not a civil uprising.
Note that not wearing your own uniform is a warcrime.
Note also that Russia has done this basically nonstop since 2014.