BERLIN—The hostage situation at Hamburg Airport ended Sunday afternoon, around 18 hours after a man drove his vehicle through the gates of the airport with his 4-year-old daughter as a passenger, authorities said. The man was arrested and the girl is safe. Hamburg police said that man had left the car with his daughter, who […]
FRANKFURT, Germany—Police warned people in Hamburg, Germany, to close their windows early Sunday after a large fire that engulfed several warehouses sent black, chemical-laden smoke drifting over the city. German news agency dpa said the fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. in the Rothenburgsort district, located in the eastern part of Germany’s second-largest city. The […]
BERLIN—A man and a woman were found dead in Hamburg on Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide, a police spokesperson in the northern German city said. “We have no indication whatsoever that this it was in anyway linked to political violence,” the spokesperson said. “We are treating it as a murder-suicide based on what we know. […]
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Europe over the weekend to demonstrate against their respective governments’ recent decisions to reimplement COVID-19 rules and mandates following reported increases in cases. Thousands of peaceful protesters demonstrated in central Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday for the third time against reinforced COVID-19 restrictions that were imposed […]
BERLIN—An Iraqi gunman died in a shootout with German police early on Sunday after killing one person in a nightclub in the southern city of Konstanz, police said, ruling out terrorism as a motive. “The motives of the man who acted alone are unclear,” Konstanz police spokesman Fritz Bezikofer told broadcaster n-tv. “We are still […]
HAMBURG—The migrant who killed one person and injured six others in a knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket was a radicalized Islamist known to German security agencies, but also believed to have psychological problems. Officials said on Saturday the agencies had believed he posed no immediate threat. A security lapse in a second deadly militant […]
Police in Hamburg, Germany, displayed some of the multitude of weapons they seized in the run-up to the G-20 Summit coming to the city on July 7-8. The weapons were seized from people planning violent protests—and were likely just a fraction of the weapons still out there. “It is of special public interest to show […]
Is it a boat, or a bus? Looking at the new Hafencity Riverbus in Hamburg, reveals it’s actually a bit of both. The amphibious capability makes it ideally suited to the port city on the Elbe. Most of Hamburg’s tourist attractions are located either on, or adjacent to the waterfront. While driving on land it’s […]
