Police shoot man with axe ahead of Hamburg Euros match
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Hamburg: Police shot and injured a man who threatened them with an axe and a Molotov cocktail ahead of a Euro 2024 match in Hamburg on Sunday, German...
Hamburg: Police shot and injured a man who threatened them with an axe and a Molotov cocktail ahead of a Euro 2024 match in Hamburg on Sunday, German authorities said.
The incident triggered a "major operation" in the city's St Pauli district, police said on X, formerly Twitter.
A 39-year-old German man has been identified as a suspect, police sources told AFP. There was no indication of a link to the Euro 2024 clash between Poland and the Netherlands that took place later on Sunday, a police spokesman said.
The attacker "threatened the police with a pickaxe and a Molotov cocktail", the spokesman said, adding that the suspect was shot in the leg.
The police also said on X that the suspect was injured and receiving medical treatment.
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