Jonas Walzberg/dpaEmergency services at Hamburg airport
NOS News•yesterday, 10:01 PM•Adjusted today, 5:42 AM
Hamburg airport is still closed due to a hostage crisis. An armed man broke through a locked gate with his car around 8 p.m. and then parked his car on the airport platform where the planes are located.
The man has a child in the car, according to the police it is his own 4-year-old daughter. According to German media, it is a 35-year-old man of Turkish descent and he is demanding a flight to Turkey for him and his daughter. He parked his car next to a Turkish Airlines plane.
According to the police, the reason for the hostage situation was an argument over custody. According to the DPA news agency, the child’s mother had previously informed the police about a possible kidnapping of the child. There is a large police presence on the airport grounds.
Burning bottles
According to a police spokesperson, the man threw two burning bottles from the car. “A kind of Molotov cocktail.” No damage was caused and no one was injured.
The man is also said to have shot into the air twice. The police are in contact with him, there is a Turkish interpreter and police psychologists have also been called in.
All flights to and from the northern German city’s airport have been canceled until further notice. According to the police, there were about thirty flights on Saturday, six of which were departing aircraft.
There were already passengers on some of those planes. They were evacuated during the evening and taken to a nearby hotel. The airport building itself had already been emptied earlier in the evening.
Jonas Walzberg/dpa There are many emergency services at the airport
2023-11-05 04:42:43
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