The assailant was shot and hospitalized without causing any injuries, announced the local police, who believe that “there is no evidence showing that there is a link” between the attack and the match.
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The reason for his action is still unknown. A man threatened to attack members of the police in Hamburg with a pickaxe and a Molotov cocktail, on the sidelines of a Euro match between the Netherlands and Poland, before being shot by the police and hospitalized, the police announced on Sunday June 16.
“The attacker came out of a cafe and threatened police officers”, a spokesperson for the local police told AFP. The police ended up shooting him and “by injuring his leg”, said the spokesperson again. The attacker was hospitalized, local police said on X.
“There is no evidence that there is a link” between this attack and the match scheduled for the afternoon between the Netherlands and Poland in Hamburg for the Euro football qualifiers, and for which a large police force was deployed. The attack took place near the very touristy Reeperbahn avenue, a little over a kilometer from the “Fan zone” set up by the authorities in a city park.
