Man shot down with pickaxe and Molotov cocktail in Netherlands fan zone in Hamburg

According to Reutersa large-scale police operation has been launched to try to find out if this is an isolated event or something more organized such as a terrorist attack.

The subject left a fast food restaurant before launch your threats in an event which occurred near an area for public viewing of the match between Poland and the Netherlands.

The event occurred in St Pauli district of the city, hours before Poland and the Netherlands face each other starting at 3 p.m. at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg.

The newspaper Bild and other media outlets reported on the event, about which the authorities acknowledged have launched a large police force in the central neighborhood of the German port city.

“At the moment there is an important police operation in San Pauli. According to the first information a person threatened police officers with a pickaxe and an incendiary device,” the Hamburg Police reported in a statement published through their social media account. x.

Given the threatening attitude of the subject, “the agents They used their firearms“, so the “attacker was injured and is currently receiving medical treatment,” according to the information shared by the Police on that social network.

The Bild reported how the surroundings of the Reeperbahn, a central street in Hamburg, It was the scene of that police operationat a time when the city is experiencing a festive day since one of its stadiums is hosting a Eurocup soccer match organized by Germany, the duel between Poland and Holland, scheduled for 1:00 p.m. GMT.

In a video circulating on social networks you can see the police intervention, in which the agents, before using their firearms, They used pepper spray against the attackersomething that did not make the armed man stop his attitude.