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Toy guns seized
Police arrest four young people – teachers threatened
November 8th, 2023, 7:15 p.m
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There are indications of a threatening situation at a school in Hamburg. The police arrive with a large contingent. Officers are searching the building and checking clues. In the evening they capture four young suspects. Around 400 officers were on duty.
Four students were arrested after threats against teachers at two schools in Hamburg. Initially only one incident was known in which a teacher was said to have been threatened with a weapon. A person stood in front of her and aimed a weapon at the woman, says police spokesman Holger Vehren. The police arrested the four students aged 12 to 14 in the evening. According to the information, two toy weapons were seized from them. The investigators initially did not provide any further details.
Two of the students are suspected of being responsible for the crime that has already become known that morning. According to the police, they threatened the teacher with a weapon in a classroom at the district school in Hamburg-Blankenese. The school was then searched by the police. One by one, all the children were taken to a nearby Bundeswehr barracks. Blankenese is located on the Elbe and is considered a rather wealthy district.
In the evening it became known that there was a similar threat situation at the Mendelssohnstrasse school in the Bahrenfeld district in the early afternoon. The situation at both schools was calm again in the evening. The teacher in Blankenese is said to have been threatened when she was teaching almost 20 students in an 8th grade. The Blankenese district school has around 1,150 students – around 400 of them in the upper secondary school alone. They are taught by more than 120 teachers.
What the perpetrators wanted from her is unclear. They then fled. According to the information, a total of around 400 police officers were involved in the operation at the district school. It was only after more than four hours that the police gave the all-clear. The first reports frightened parents.