Traffic at Hamburg airport in northern Germany was interrupted on Saturday evening, November 4, due to a large police operation linked to the alleged kidnapping of a child as part of a dispute over his custody.
Around 8 p.m., an armed man drove a car through an airport gate and drove onto the tarmac, shooting twice in the air and throwing two burning bottles out of the cabin, a door said. -police word. At least two people, including a child, were in the vehicle, according to police.
Earlier, the car driver’s wife had alerted police about her child’s abduction, he added. In the evening, police said they believed a “dispute concerning the custody of a child is at the origin of this operation”.
Psychologists on site
“We are on site with a large contingent of emergency services. We currently favor a static situation of [prise]hostage »said the Hamburg police on his X account (ex-Twitter). “We are in the process of evacuating all aircraft at Hamburg Airport that still have passengers on them. The terminals have already been evacuated »added the police.
Psychologists as well as agents specializing in negotiations are on site, police said, adding as of 2 a.m. they were still in contact with the individual in the vehicle.
At the same time, the airport published a message on its website announcing that no landing or takeoff was possible due to police intervention. In total, “twenty-seven air movements – six departures and twenty-one landings – with approximately 3,200 passengers are concerned”an airport spokeswoman told the German newspaper Bild.