A person with a decide axe and an incendiary system close to a Euro 2024 fan park in Hamburg has been shot.
The incident is known to have taken place on the sidelines of a fan parade, often known as the ‘Fan Stroll’ which begun at 12.30pm native time.
In an announcement on social media, police mentioned: “At St Pauli there may be at the moment a serious police operation.
“Based on preliminary findings, an individual threatened cops with a pickaxe and an incendiary system. The police then used their firearms.
“The attacker was injured and is at the moment receiving medical therapy.”
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They added that the occasion at Heiligengeistfeld is topic to varied safety checks and they’re at the moment assuming that this was the motion of a lone perpetrator.
Hundreds of Dutch and Polish followers are within the metropolis forward of at this time’s 2pm kick-off in Group D.
The incident occurred on the Reeperbahn, which is a well-liked leisure district in Hamburg’s metropolis centre that can have been stuffed with soccer followers.
German newspaper Bild reported that the the person attacked a police officer utilizing a gold-tinted hammer, earlier than photographs have been fired.
Germany is at the moment enjoying host to the month-long match, which begun on Friday night.
On Saturday evening, a 1000’s of German officers policed the tens of 1000’s of Dutch followers, who turned the crimson mild district right into a sea of orange.
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