After more than 18 hours of negotiations with the man who held his four-year-old daughter hostage at Hamburg airport, the police announced that the hostage crisis was over.
“The hostage crisis is over. The suspect got out of the car with his daughter. He did not resist during the arrest. It seems that the child was unharmed,” the police said.
They added that preparations are underway for the establishment of flights and that work is underway to reopen the terminal.
The airport in Germany’s Hamburg was closed for hours due to the hostage crisis and all flights this morning were cancelled.
The competent authorities announced that they spent several hours negotiating with a 35-year-old man, who was holding his four-year-old daughter hostage in a car next to a passenger plane. The incident was described in the press release as a “family drama”.
Last night around 20:00, a man broke through the gate, drove to the stop and stopped near the passenger plane that was supposed to fly to Turkey.
The police confirmed that the man previously had a dispute with his wife regarding divorce and parental rights. Earlier on Saturday, she contacted the police about the possible abduction of the child.
The operator asked passengers not to come to the airport and to follow the announcements of the authorities, because the access roads were blocked by the police, Anadolu agency reports.
