Did the German Army lose to the German Police on the street?
On the 22nd, an extremely surreal incident occurred in Germany.
According to the German media "Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation," on that day, the German Federal Armed Forces conducted a military exercise codenamed "Field Marshal Power" in Bavaria. However, due to poor communication, these soldiers participating in the military exercise were mistakenly identified by local residents as "armed masked militants who were acting suspiciously," and the situation was reported to the police department.
Then something absurd happened.
After receiving the report and arriving at the scene, the German police had not yet confirmed the situation, but the German soldiers directly fired guns loaded with blank cartridges, treating it as part of the exercise. (The original words of the German media indeed meant this. The German police are also a department involved in the exercise, but it is hard to understand what kind of exercise objective "firing at the police" could be.)
When the German police saw the "armed militants" dare to fire, they immediately drew their guns and shot back (the police guns were loaded with live ammunition). The final result of the gunfight was that one German soldier was shot and taken to the hospital for treatment.
Currently, the German military is investigating the cause of this misunderstanding. However, according to the reports from the German media, the German military is likely trying to shift the blame onto the police - the report implies that the local police should have been informed about the exercise, but "for some reason they were not aware of it."
In addition, it is worth noting that the scenario assumed in this German military exercise was an attack on NATO, and the German military needed to deal with armed personnel carrying out sabotage activities behind the lines. But now it seems that if NATO were truly attacked, the German military may not be able to rely on.
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