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 custody dispute.
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 authorities of 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 from Hamburg Airport that still have passengers on them. The terminals have already been evacuated »she added.
Psychologists as well as agents specializing in negotiations are on site, police said, adding, at 2 a.m., that 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, this represents “twenty-seven air movements – six takeoffs and twenty-one landings – for approximately 3,200 passengers”an airport spokeswoman told the German newspaper Bild.