European Football Championships | In Hamburg, a large police operation: Reeperbahn closed, a man who was waving a pickaxe was shot

European football championships|According to the police release, the man also had a fuel bottle in his possession.

Hamburg the police say message service in Xthat there was a large police operation in the St. Paul neighborhood on Sunday.

According to the release, the police had to shoot the person who caused the disturbance, who attacked the police with a search engine.

German newspaper Bildin the man who was rioting also attacked the fans.

According to the police, the man also had a fuel bottle in his possession. The police assume that the man intended to use it in a crowd.

Thousands of supporters of the Dutch national football team were in the area.

Germany’s the most famous street Reeperbahn was closed because of the incident.

Up to 40,000 Dutch people are said to have marched in a supporters’ procession through the streets of Hamburg before the Poland match. Thousands of them gathered on the Reeperbahn.

The closing of the street is reported, among other things, by the football reporter of the New York Times newspaper Rory Smith message service in X.

“The police have closed the Reeperbahn in Hamburg near the fan zone with thousands of Dutch fans. Four loud bangs, after which hundreds of riot police arrived,” he wrote.

“The police first used pepper spray and then fired a warning shot, according to the eyewitness. I heard four bangs and I was about 20 yards away [noin 18,3 metrin päässä]so one would assume the man was shot three times,” Smith added.

Also According to Bild, the police first used pepper spray and then a firearm against the attacker. The police first fired a warning shot and then several shots until the man fell to the ground.

The man who attacked with the search is Smith’s by seriously injured, and has been taken away by ambulance.

Smith uses the word ax when the Hamburg police has spoken all the time about Spitzhacke, i.e. the search.

Also Bildin in the news published picture of the tool says that the attacker had a pickaxe in his hand.

Police shot the man in the leg according to Bild. No bystanders were injured in the situation.

According to the police spokesperson, the man came from the bar with a search engine and a Molotov cocktail and then threatened the police.

The incident happened near the Reeperbahn subway station, more than a kilometer away from the fan zone. However, thousands of Dutch people traveled on the Reeperbahn.