Hamburg Police confirmed they shot a person who threatened them with a pickaxe and an “incendiary machine” close to the place Netherlands followers have gathered forward of their Euro 2024 match.
The incident befell within the St Pauli district of Hamburg on Sunday at round 12.30pm native time, roughly 90 minutes earlier than Poland had been set to face Netherlands on the close by Volksparkstadion.
An announcement from the Hamburg Police learn: “At St Pauli there’s at present a significant police operation. In keeping with preliminary findings, an individual threatened cops with a pickaxe and an incendiary machine. The police then used their firearms. The attacker was injured and is at present receiving medical therapy.”
Round 40,000 supporters have been in Hamburg peacefully with the incident occurring across the time when Dutch followers had been marching to the stadium.
Footage on social media had proven hundreds of Netherlands supporters within the metropolis having fun with the build-up to the Group D sport towards Poland.
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Chief Constable Mark Roberts, head of UK Soccer Policing Unit say no England followers had been concerned within the police capturing in Hamburg and highlights secure journey in Germany round Euro 2024 fixutres
Chief Constable Mark Roberts, head of the UK Soccer Policing Unit, advised Sky Sports activities Information: “Nothing suggests there’s any British involvement.
“It is a way away in Hamburg from the place we’re however it’s a reminder that there is lots of issues happening on this planet that is not essentially linked to soccer. Folks want to pay attention to their environment and take care.”
‘Incident not football-related’
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Sky Sports activities Information chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol offers particulars of an incident in Germany the place Police had been threatened by an individual with an axe.
Sky Sports activities Information’ chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol in Gelsenkirchen:
“After the Dutch followers had marched down the Reeperbahn – one of many predominant streets in Hamburg – an incident that is been captured on video the place anyone wearing all black, holding a small pickaxe seems to threaten a bunch of German cops.
“They tried to calm him down however when it seemed like he was threatening them, it seems they used pepper spray on him which triggered him to run away. He was chased by cops who appeared to shoot him within the leg.
“We’re being advised that he’s receiving hospital therapy and the German authorities say they imagine this incident wasn’t soccer associated, regardless that it occurred very near the kick-off of this sport and really near the place numerous Dutch followers had been congregating.”
Euro 2024 fixtures – Sunday, June 16
Group D: Poland vs Netherlands (Hamburg, kick-off 2pm UK time)
Group C: Slovenia vs Denmark (Stuttgart, kick-off 5pm UK time)
Group C: Serbia vs England (Gelsenkirchen, kick-off 8pm UK time)