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.
  • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Apparently it was the military police that started firing with blanks, but regardless of if it was a regular soldier or not, what training scenario were they doing that required them shooting on local police and doing that in a residential area? Civil war?

    • vf2000@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 months ago

      what training scenario were they doing

      As reported the days before (translated from German):

      According to the Bundeswehr, the deployed forces are to train operations against threats behind a fictional front line, in what is referred to as the “rear area.” This includes scenarios involving drones, sabotage, or so-called “irregular forces,” meaning armed fighters not belonging to a state army. The assumption is that a NATO member state is attacked, and the alliance must respond to defend it.

      Training will also focus on tasks such as working at crime scenes, directing traffic, locating weapon caches, combating illegal arms trade, and protecting critical infrastructure, for example, at the decommissioned Isar 2 nuclear power plant. Soldiers will also practice defending against enemy drones and deploying their own.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Ok, and how does that scenario involve having to shoot on clearly marked local police forces?