Kretschmer: "There is no one hundred percent protection"

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has warned against false expectations of absolute safety following the shooting rampage in Leipzig. "There is no such thing as one hundred percent protection", he said during a visit to the memorial site at Leipzig University's Paulinum.

The incident was "a terrible one", said Kretschmer. "All my sympathy goes out to the victims, these innocent people who were torn from their lives from one second to the next." The crime had shaken many people, precisely because Grimmaische Straße is a place where people usually move around "carefree, freely, without fear".

Debate about security in cities

With a view to the debate about more security in cities, he also called for prudence. "We can protect ourselves from many things," said Kretschmer. The police and local authorities were already doing a lot. But there will never be absolute security. "It could have been any other place. That is also a bitter realization."

Two people were killed in the deadly rampage and several others were injured.