According to the local police, the assailant was killed during the police intervention
The perpetrator of this morning’s hostage-taking in a Dresden shopping center was killed during the police intervention, the police announced.
“The hostage situation has ended,” the police initially announced on Twitter, clarifying that there was no longer any danger and that security measures in the historic center of Dresden had been lifted.
“During the attack and the release of the hostages, the 40-year-old man suffered a fatal injury,” the Dresden police later explained without providing information on the identity of the attacker.
Shortly before 1:00 p.m. local time, police said they were in contact with the suspect and that police intervention and negotiation teams were on the scene.
German media, including the Bild newspaper, reported that a man armed with a pistol had taken refuge in a shop in a shopping center in the center of Dresden, after he had previously tried to break into the premises of the city’s radio station and after repeatedly firing at its door, without stopping. can open it.
The gunman, according to Bild, had killed his mother before trying to break into the radio station.
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