Police shoot man with axe ahead of Hamburg Euros match

AFP | Hamburg, Germany

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Police shot and injured a man who threatened them with an axe and a Molotov cocktail ahead of a Euro 2024 match in Hamburg yesterday, German authorities said.

The incident triggered a “major operation” in the city’s St Pauli district, police said on X, formerly Twitter. A 39-year-old German man has been identified as a suspect, police sources told AFP.

There was no indication of a link to the Euro 2024 clash between Poland and the Netherlands that took place later on Sunday, a police spokesman said.

The attacker “came out of a pub with a pickaxe and a Molotov cocktail and threatened the police”, the spokesman said, adding that the suspect was shot in the leg.