He Hamburg airport He had to be closed after a armed man He crossed one of the gates with a vehicle around 8:00 p.m. local time and headed towards the platform, ‘Die Welt’ reported. According to a police spokesperson, the individual fired two shots into the air.
The Armed man has barricaded himself with the children on the apron at #Hamburg #Airport. Sources pending verification say, the children belonged to him and his wife had called the security officials about his movement from him to the airport.#crisis https://t.co/L2rJyWjxOC pic.twitter.com/3mr7STjDEH
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The police have confirmed that there are no injuries, but the airport has been evacuated and closed for takeoffs and landings. The security forces are carrying out a major operation and taking on a “hostage taking“.
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The man’s wife had previously reported to the police a possible child kidnapping. According to the ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine’, it has been confirmed that there was a child in the man’s car, although it is not clear that there was a second, as was initially stated.
🇩🇪 | URGENT: The wife of a man who barricaded himself in a car at the airport managed to warn the police by telephone about the kidnapping of the children. Preliminary reports indicate that the man is armed and fired several times. #Germany pic.twitter.com/au0RvUYKt5
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The man threw two lit bottles from the car, “a kind of Molotov cocktail,” said the official spokesman, although without major damage. Currently, the airport is being evacuated as a safety measure and a total of 27 flights have been affected at the moment.