The airport in Hamburg is still closed because the hostage crisis that started last night around 8 p.m. has not yet ended.
Last night, an armed man broke through the protective fence in an “Audi” car without license plates and went onto the runway.
He parked his car directly under the plane that was about to take off.
Sandra Levgrun, a police spokeswoman, told Bild that the police had been negotiating with the man all night in Turkish, that negotiations were continuing and that the background to the incident was an apparent child custody dispute.
Just before the armed man was noticed by security forces at the airport, his wife alerted the police. She alerted officials that her husband was rushing to the airport with the child.
It is said that the father, a thirty-five years old Turk from Lower Saxony, allegedly stole the child from the mother on Saturday night.
He drove his car through the barrier onto the airport grounds and fired a gun into the air twice, then threw two lit bottles from the vehicle, a police spokesman said.
Police said no one was injured, while the airport announced it was currently closed for takeoffs and landings, Reuters reported.
