HAMBURG – Poland and Holland took to the pitch regularly and the atmosphere in the stadium was still festive despite the very serious episode of violence which preceded the starting whistle of the fifth match of the European Championships in Germany, in Hamburg.
Attack during Dutch fan march
In the St Pauli district, two and a half hours before kick-off, there was in fact an attack on the procession of around thirty thousand fans following the Orange national team by a man armed with an axe, in whose backpack, according to initial reconstructions, a Molotov cocktail was also found.
The local police immediately intervened and were forced to fire several shots to neutralize him. This appears to be a 39-year-old German man from Buchholz in Nordheide (Lower Saxony) who appears to be schizophrenic. We know for certain that he has been hospitalized, but as of now there has been no official communication on his condition from the police. order.
Armored stadium
Maximum alert in the city e.g Armored Volkspartadion, even though the two fans behaved perfectly outside and inside the stadium. The news of the wounding of some Dutch supporters in the ambush has not been confirmed and it seems excluding the terrorist matrix, after the alarm had already been raised in recent days following the discovery of an abandoned backpack in the Berlin fan zone. But the alert in Germany obviously remains high and Hamburg’s aggression will increase prevention measures even further.
