Unhinged Naked Man Shot Dead After Stabbing German Police Officer

MOSCOW, February 2 (Sputnik) – A naked man in Lower Saxony was shot dead by police after attacking officers who were called to his address, reports thelocal.de.

"The initial call was about a man on a rampage," a police spokesperson told the news website, adding that a neighbor had called the police because the man had been throwing furniture out of his apartment window.

Police arrived at the flat in the town of Bad Zwischenahn at around 11.25am, and were met by the man, who was wearing no clothes and, unknown to the officers, holding a knife behind his back. According to the police report, one of the officers tripped, and the man then tried to stab the policeman with the knife, wounding him in the arm and hand. After attempts to subdue the attacker with pepper spray were unsuccessful, the second officer shot him. The offender died at the scene despite attempts to resuscitate him.

The man has not been identified, but is reported to be a 31-year-old originally from the Ivory Coast. NWZonline reports that the man was already known to local police for drug and alcohol offences, and had been treated for mental illness in 2010.

"No evidence of any improper conduct on the part of the officers has been found," said Mathias Kutzner, spokesman for the police department in Oldenburg, adding that the investigation into the incident is set to continue.