Overview
- Police confirmed that gunfire struck the specialty watch shop on Breite Straße shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday and that no one was injured.
- Officers and criminal technicians remained on scene securing traces and collecting projectiles and other evidence as the investigation continued.
- Investigators said the store is the same location that was shot at twice in August, when police found multiple impact marks, broken glass, and recovered projectiles.
- Local reporting places the incident in a wider pattern of recent shootings in Cologne that authorities are examining for links to organized crime and targeted intimidation.
- Authorities plan to analyse ballistics and CCTV and to check for connections with the August attacks, and nearby businesses can expect increased police presence and calls to review security measures.