Hamburg police shoot man who threatened officers before Netherlands-Poland match

Hamburg police officers opened fire on Sunday June 16 on a man who threatened them with a hammer and a Molotov cocktail, on the sidelines of a Euro football match, the police announced. . Injured in one leg, he was hospitalized.

“There is no evidence showing that there is a link with the Euro” and the match between Netherlands and Polandwon 2-1 by the Dutch, could take place, specifies the police in a press release released in the evening.

For a reason still unknown, the attacker, a 39-year-old German who “was in an abnormal psychological state”came out of a snack bar “and threatened several passers-by and police officers with a slate hammer and a Molotov cocktail”she continues.

The attack took place near the very touristy Reeperbahn avenue, where a ” walk “ of Dutch supporters had just taken place. The location is a little over a kilometer from the fan zone set up by the authorities in a city park.