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Pastimes : Kosovo
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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (12134)6/16/1999 1:49:00 AM
From: MNI  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
If I don't comment it doesn't mean I do agree in this case.

One comment: the car was shot at in Prizren, not Pristina.
I thought your local knowledge was better founded in details?

It is stated that after the shooting an AK47 assault rifle and a hand-grenade were found in the car. Independent journalists of several countries were at the scene, shooting their pictures while the soldiers used bullets.
Finding those weapons is not a reason for shooting of course. It was claimed that the persons inside the car had randomly shot at a "NATO, NATO"-shouting mass, after that speeding against the German control point and shooting at the tanks and soldiers. There are no pictures of the assault. One German soldier was shot through the arm.

Considering the poor state of military combat training in German troops it is conceivable though that the soldiers lost their nerve and shot without a good reason. To my impression the soldiers went on shooting for too long, when there seems to have been definitely no threat anymore with the driver killed and the second passenger only hanging in his seat, heavily bleeding and gasping. But of course I am totally unqualified to judge the situation.

It was claimed also that journalists were the first ones at the car,
and actually removed the wounded man from it.

MNI
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