The police of Hamburg, Germany indicated this Sunday having shot at a man who threatened to attack law enforcement with a pickaxe and a Molotov cocktail in the city where a Euro Cup match is taking place.
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However, “there is no element that indicates a link with football” and the European afternoon match between the Netherlands and Poland, a local police spokesman, Thilo Marxsen, told AFP.
For a reason still unknown, “The aggressor left a cafeteria and threatened the police officers,” he added.
The moment the ax wielding man is shot by police in Hamburg.
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The security forces ended up shooting and “injuring him in the leg”added the spokesperson, who indicated that the aggressor was hospitalized.
In a video circulating on social networks you can see the police intervention, in which the officers, before using their firearms, used pepper spray against the aggressor, something that did not make the armed man release the pickaxe and the incendiary bomb. .
Hamburg is experiencing a festive day as one of its stadiums hosts a Eurocup soccer match organized by Germany, the duel between Poland and the Netherlands.
A large police force was deployed in the city ahead of Sunday’s game.
Group D match of Euro 2024 between Poland and the Netherlands, in Hamburg.
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The attack took place near the Reeperbahn tourist avenue, just over a kilometer from the “fanzone” installed by the authorities.
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