Overview

• About 1,500 people gathered in the Saarlandhalle for the state-led service, including Saarland leaders, Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and Luxembourg’s Interior Minister Léon Gloden.
• Minister-President Anke Rehlinger called the killing senseless, said the state remains stunned, and vowed to preserve the officer’s honorable memory.
• Dobrindt condemned the violence and said offenses against police must be met with the full severity of the rule of law.
• Bohr, 34, was shot on 21 August in Völklingen after an 18-year-old allegedly seized a service weapon during a struggle; he was struck by six bullets.
• The suspect was wounded in a subsequent exchange of fire and is in pretrial detention on suspicion of murder, while investigators continue to examine the case.