A police officer has been injured during a traffic stop in the east of Leipzig. The officer wanted to carry out a routine check on a car on Hermann-Liebmann-Straße at around midday on Tuesday, a police spokesperson said when asked. The driver then suddenly drove off. The officer was hit and dragged along for some distance, a police spokesman said. As a result, a shot was fired from the 41-year-old's service weapon.
How this happened is still under investigation. According to the spokesperson, no one was injured by the shots fired. The car was later found empty in a cross street not far from the checkpoint. The driver fled the scene. Several media outlets had previously reported.
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