The man armed with a knife who locked himself in a building this Wednesday before threatening to blow it up on a street in the popular Einsbüttel neighborhood from the port city of Hamburg (north), was arrested after a large police force was deployed, with the presence of firefighters and an ambulance, local media reported. According to the local newspaper ‘Hamburger Morgenpost’, the device involved the deployment of agents from the Special Interventions Command (SEK), the special forces of the German Police.

His intervention, as confirmed by the Police to that newspaper, resulted in the arrest of the subject after be reduced by SEK agents. Earlier, the residents of Kleiner Schäferkampstraße alerted the police around 12 o’clock because a man had “gone crazy in his apartment.” When the police patrol arrived, the subject threatened the officers, according to this newspaper. The street in which the event took place was closed to the public, the area was cordoned off and “a rescue jumping mattress was placed in front of the house in case the alleged perpetrator jumped out of the window,” noted the newspaper ‘Bild’, before of the arrest taking place.

This Wednesday’s event is the second to live in Hamburg and that involves the deployment of a strong police force in a few days. Last Sunday a man who was armed with an incendiary device and a pickaxe He was injured and detained by police officers this Sunday in Hamburg, not far from one of the areas for fans enjoying public viewings at the Euro Cup. The northern German port city is one of the ten venues in whose stadiums Germany’s Euro 2024 matches are held.