A significant operation is going down in central Hamburg after a person with an axe threatened cops, officers within the German metropolis say.
Police say they shot and critically injured the person, who’s receiving medical consideration.
Media reviews say the incident occurred close to a fanzone for supporters of the Dutch soccer workforce.
The Netherlands are enjoying Poland within the metropolis within the Euro 2024 event afterward Sunday.
An preliminary police assertion stated {that a} man threatened cops with a pickaxe and an “incendiary gadget”.
Later, a Hamburg police spokesperson advised the BBC the suspect was armed with a pickaxe and had tried to ignite a petroleum bomb – however that officers responded with pepper spray after which shot him.
The incident is known to have taken place at round 12:30 native time (10:30 GMT).
Video footage posted on-line, reveals a person wielding an axe in entrance of cops earlier than a collection of suspected gunshot sounds will be heard.
The person has not been recognized by the police and the authorities haven’t commented on what motivations they imagine had been behind the incident.
Rory Smith, the New York Instances’s chief soccer correspondent in Hamburg, stated the incident occurred on the Reeperbahn, a principal road and nightlife space within the metropolis only a few hundred yards from the Dutch fanzone.
BBC Sport journalist Gary Rose, who can be in Hamburg, stated preparations had been going forward as deliberate for the match which kicks off at 15:00 native time.
The stadium is about 5 miles from the town centre the place the incident occurred.
There are roughly 30,000 Dutch followers within the metropolis, and possibly an analogous variety of Polish. There seems to be an excellent environment forward of the match, which is seemingly unaffected by the incident.