2023-11-05 11:34:00
Traffic at Hamburg airport in Germany remained blocked on Sunday by a hostage situation on the tarmac, after the kidnapping of a child by his father as part of a family conflict, local authorities said.
According to the daily Bild, the man asks to be able to fly to Turkey with his 4-year-old granddaughter.
“Negotiations are continuing,” the police said late in the morning on with his daughter on board, and positioned himself at the foot of a Turkish Airlines airliner.
“We believe that the child is physically well, this is what we can observe and what we gather from the telephone conversations with the perpetrator. We can hear the child in the background,” said a door – police spokesperson, Sandra Levgrün, to the regional public television channel NDR.
On the other hand, “I don’t want to comment on the psychological state” of the little girl, she added.
“We are talking, talking and talking again” with the father “and trying to reach a peaceful solution,” the spokesperson said.
The police mobilized psychologists and teams of negotiators on site, in addition to intervention units.
The father of the family burst into the airport runway on Saturday evening, driving into a barrier, shooting twice in the air and throwing two burning bottles, “a kind of Molotov cocktail”, out of the air. interior, according to police.
On its grounds, the police speak of a “dispute concerning the custody of a child” between the father and the mother.
According to the daily Bild, the man is of Turkish nationality and would have wanted to board the airliner with his little daughter. Police said the negotiations were taking place in Turkish.
Previously, the wife of the driver of the car had alerted the police to the kidnapping of this child, which occurred at her home in Stade, around thirty kilometers from Hamburg.
On Saturday evening, 17 flights scheduled to land in Hamburg, with 3,200 people on board, had to be diverted. For Sunday, 286 flights are in principle planned, carrying 34,500 passengers.
Airport management has warned that flights remain suspended until further notice.
05/11/2023 11:26:26 – Berlin (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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