He showed up with a pickaxe it’s a molotov in front of the stadium Volksparkstadion Of Hamburg shortly before the start of the European Championship match between Poland-Holland. There police of Hamburg intervened shooting And wounding the man who there he threatened. According to media reports, the accident occurred near a area reserved for fans of the Dutch football team. The match between Poland and Holland which opens the first day of group D of the European Championships 2024.
The police first used it against the attacker pepper spraythen shot, as reported Bild. According to police, a police officer initially fired only one warning shot to stop the attacker. They were then several shots fired until the man collapsed to the ground. The attacker remained wound and is receiving medical treatment. The police assume that the man wanted to detonate the incendiary device among the crowd of fans. “There is currently an ongoingmajor police operation in St. Pauli. According to initial investigations, a person threatened the police officers with a pickaxe and an incendiary device. The emergency services then used firearms. The attacker was injured and is currently receiving medical treatment,” Hamburg police said. In recent days one suspicious backpack which led to the temporary eviction of part of the fan zone in Berlin.
Hamburg is crowded with fans, in view of the Poland-Holland match. Shortly before the alarm, tens of thousands of Dutch fans had paraded through the streets of the St. Pauli district, where the Reeperbahn, a famous street in the area, is located. Early indications suggest that “there is no connection with football“, said the German police spokesperson, confirming that the man was hit in the leg. According to the reconstruction of the police, the man is came out of a pub along a road adjacent to the Reeperbahn with the pickaxe in his hand, “exhibited” in a “threatening manner” to the officers who asked him to put it on the ground. When he refused, the spokesperson added, they hit him in the leg.
