According to Reuters, a man entered a car through a boarding gate at Hamburg Airport (Germany) and fired two shots into the air. The airport was closed.
The attack occurred around 8 pm local time. The man threw two burning bottles – “a type of Molotov cocktail” – from the car, Federal Police spokesman Thomas Herbert said. Image.
A police spokesman said the suspect was holding his four-year-old son in a car parked under the plane.
Authorities believe the situation is related to a child custody dispute.
This was reported by a representative of the airport. Image that “due to a police operation, flights at Hamburg Airport have been suspended since 20:24 and will not resume this Saturday. 27 flights (6 departures and 21 arrivals) with approximately 3,200 passengers are affected. It is currently impossible to predict when operations will resume. Traveling to the airport is also not possible at the moment.”
According to information available on the Hamburg Airport website, at least three flights from Portugal and the islands had to be canceled due to the incident.