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Weapons arsenal in Cologne-Kalk: Police are looking for fake documents!
In Cologne-Kalk, the police discovered an arsenal of weapons during a car check and arrested three men.
Weapons arsenal in Cologne-Kalk: Police are looking for fake documents!
In a surprising twist, police in Cologne-Kalk conducted a check on a car on the evening of October 9th, which led to an impressive arsenal of weapons. At around 7 p.m., four men in a car were stopped on Buchheimer Weg Express reported. The first sign of suspicious activity was fake identification documents discovered during the search. This led to the preliminary arrests of three men aged 22, 40 and 50.
The subsequent court-ordered search of the suspects' homes revealed horrifying results. The 50-year-old's apartment in particular turned out to be a dangerous hotspot: Here the officers found an arsenal consisting of seven live or converted gas pistols and a deceptively real-looking Uzi submachine gun. There were also tools available that can be used to convert weapons, such as n-tv reported.
Weapons and drugs in sight
But the range of goods in the apartments was not yet complete. The 40-year-old suspect had hidden a gas pistol as well as live ammunition and a selection of tablets classified as narcotics in his apartment. These discoveries shed a worrying light on the situation of gun crime in Germany, which according to current statistics from the Federal Criminal Police Office is on the rise. In 2024, there was an increase in incidents related to illegal possession of weapons, causing concern among the population Statista can prove.
The police will now press ahead with further investigations to clarify the background to these illegal weapons caches. The suspects are in custody as authorities make every effort to uncover possible networks behind these activities. Such incidents not only pose a legal challenge, but also highlight a serious societal problem that needs to be urgently addressed.
The discovery in Cologne-Kalk is another example of how important education and preventive measures are in the area of gun crime. The city and its respective security organs now have the responsibility to protect the population and prevent similar incidents in the future.