{"id":233907,"date":"2023-08-22T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=233907"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:04:22","slug":"germany-arrests-two-us-soldiers-after-man-stabbed-to-death-at-funfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=233907","title":{"rendered":"Germany arrests two US soldiers after man stabbed to death at funfair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/789\/78964999.jpg\" alt=\"The United States has had troops stationed in Germany since World War II\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>The United States has had troops stationed in Germany since World War II<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">BERLIN, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two American soldiers have been arrested in Germany over the death of a man at a funfair in the west of the country, according to German police.<br><br>\u201cFollowing the murder of a 28-year-old man, two suspects were arrested \u2026 They are American servicemen,\u201d police in the western city of Treves said in a statement.<br><br>The death occurred when an altercation broke out between several people at a Saubrenner funfair in the small town of Wittlich, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate between Treves and Koblenz, on Saturday night.<br><br>During the fight, the victim \u201cwas stabbed to death\u201d and \u201cfour people, two men and two women, ran away from the scene of the crime\u201d, police said, citing witnesses.<br><br>Two members of the fleeing group, aged 25 and 26, were quickly identified whom police arrested before handing over to US authorities, who will take charge of the case \u201cin accordance with NATO statutes\u201d, the police added.<br><br>\u201cWe\u2019ve never experienced anything like this here,\u201d said Wittlich Mayor Joachim Rodenkirch when asked by the local press.<br><br>Colonel Kevin Crofton of the US Airbase Spangdahlem spoke of an \u201cintolerable and avoidable tragedy in our peaceful community\u201d, according to the SWR, a local media outlet. He thanked the local police and the town of Wittlich for their \u201cpartnership and patience while the investigation unfolds\u201d, the SWR reported.<br><br>The United States has had troops stationed in Germany since World War II, but their numbers have declined since the fall of the Berlin Wall from about 200,000 soldiers in 1990 to 34,500 today. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has had troops stationed in Germany since World War II BERLIN, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Two American soldiers have been arrested in Germany over the death of a man at a funfair in the west of the country, according to German police. \u201cFollowing the murder of a 28-year-old man, two suspects were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233909,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233907\/revisions\/233909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}