Frequent knive attacks are behind the proposal of the Ministry of Interior for the use of anesthetic weapons. The previous Saltz government had kept them away from the police.

The federal police are reinforced and equipped. He has said it since the first day of his duties by Bavarian Christian Socialist Interior Minister Alexander Dobrid and is doing so.

According to his plans, police officers will be able to be equipped with portable stunning pistols in the future. These pistols, known as Taser, are portable electric shock devices that cause temporary immobilization through the immediate effect they have on the neuromuscular system.

“I am convinced that they are absolutely essential to the police,” Alexander Dobrida said in an interview with Funke Group, and announces that the necessary legal framework will be introduced this year. As a causal basis, it proposes the “increasing threat to public places” and the protection of police if they are attacked with a knife.

Controversial weapons … but the police are asking for

Interior Ministry Alexander Dobrid, as the website tagesschau.de notes, had been in favor of using a stunning weapons and as a member of the opposition, but the previous government under Chancellor Allaf Saltz and many Social Democrats were in charge of the tasters.

According to official data, crime in Germany in recent years has been moving at alarmingly high levels and last year 305 police have received corresponding knife attacks.

According to Ralph Kouterer, Vice -President of the German Police Association, the “spiral of violence” against police is constantly increasing and police should have means to protect public security and themselves.

New knife incident in Munich

Violence using knives causes horror in Germany every week. Last night in Munich, a 30 -year -old woman of Bulgarian descent with psychiatric problems attacked two people with a knife. The victims, a 56 -year -old man and a 25 -year -old woman, were slightly injured.

The 30 -year -old woman who attacked the two passers -by in the Terrezenstad area of ​​Monano – where the Octoberfest is organized, the famous beer celebration – ended up in a city hospital after a fire received by police. She underwent surgery but eventually succumbed to her injuries.