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Schongau: After a disturbing fire series: Suspected arsonists arrested – police give details

The fire series in Lechrain could be over: After another Stadel fire in Unterdießen in the night on Friday, the police arrested two suspects.

  • Since December, a fire series in the Schongau area and in the Landsberg am Lech district has kept the fire brigades in suspense.
  • In the night of Friday (January 17th) there was another fire in Unterdießen.
  • The police have now arrested two suspects.

Update, January 17, 5.40 p.m .: New details on the arrest of the alleged arsonist: “You have to be able to work out coincidence,” said Manfred Frei, head of Criminal Investigation Department Fuerstenfeldbruck, He proudly announced yesterday that two alleged perpetrators of the fire series in the Lechrain were arrested. On Friday at 1 a.m., officers from the criminal police near Unterdießen (Landsberg district) noticed a fire in a large one Wood warehouse, They alerted the fire department. The police also watched a car drive away, one 3BMW, They informed their colleagues. Several strips followed the chase. About 20 minutes later the car came to a stand in front of a residential building in Thaining (Landsberg district). The police arrested the men. “Access to a residence is better than a chase,” Frei said.

The fire series had kept many people in suspense. The news that the fire devils are well established spread quickly in the region. “The whole area is relieved,” said Karl Fernsemer from Rott. His barn burned down on December 14th. “Hopefully they are the right ones.” He and other farmers had recently lived in constant fear. “You always wondered if something happened or not,” said the farmer. As a precaution, he had brought the hay and straw from his other three barns to the yard. Other farmers had prepared slurry tanks filled with water for extinguishing and put watch on at night.

Schongau: After a disturbing fire series: Suspected arsonists arrested – police give details

Update, January 17, 3 p.m .: As reported by the Oberbayern Nord police headquarters, the property damage is at the total of twelve firesthat occurred in the Landsberg am Lech district and the neighboring Weilheim-Schongau district between December 2019 and January 2020, at around 600,000 euros.

In December of last year, the Fürstenfeldbruck criminal police founded their own investigation team (EG Feldscheune).

An attempt was made to set fire to a larger timber warehouse in Unterdießen police at night on Friday (January 17th). According to the police report, the police prevented the fire from spreading. In addition, they brought about the arrest of the two suspects, who were walking away from the scene in a BMW 3 Series. Access was in front of the apartment of a 25-year-old from the Landsberg am Lech district. The driver of the vehicle is a 24-year-old man from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district.

The two suspects are currently being questioned by the Fürstenfeldbruck criminal police. They are to be brought before the judge on Saturday (January 18th).

Suspected arsonists arrested – police give details at press conference

Update, January 17, 2:10 p.m .: At a press conference in Fürstenfeldbruck, the police now together with the public prosecutor’s office in Augsburg for the arrests. Investigators were investigated by the Brandes noticed a suspicious vehicle during the night of Friday (January 17th). The investigation eventually led to the arrest of the two suspects.

The suspects are currently being questioned. The two allegedly set the fire yesterday night offender already stood. They had already agreed to further confessions. However, the officials do not yet want to give any details here.

The police assume that they can assign the “majority of the fires” to them. The two suspects are a 24-year-old man from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district. He is a soldier and grew up in the Landsberg district. The second suspect is 25 years old, unemployed and living in the Landsberg district. He is already known to the police and has been noticed in the past for theft, driving without a license and other crimes. The men apparently know each other from their time in the Bundeswehr.

The earlier speculation that the arsonists may be firefighters has not been confirmed.

Fire series in the Schongau area: fire in Unterdießen – police arrest two suspects

Schongau – she has the Lechrain and that Schongauer country kept in suspense: The fire seriesthat started back in December. Now, in the night from Thursday to Friday (January 17th), the police after another Stadel fire in Unterdießen two suspect caught.

After a disturbing fire series in the Schongauer Land: police arrest two suspects

A fire series has been dealing with the police and for weeks fire Department in the district of Landsberg. At the request of our newspaper, the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria North confirmed that the two suspects had been caught.

There is currently no further information on the sex or age of the suspects. At 2 p.m., the investigators will comment in a press conference.

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