BERLIN — A person who drove onto the tarmac at Hamburg Airport along with his 4-year-old daughter, beginning an 18-hour standoff with police that ended along with his arrest, was utilizing a rental automotive and lacked a weapons allow, authorities stated Monday.
Operations on the airport returned to regular on Monday after the prolonged closure attributable to the hostage state of affairs, and the airport operator signaled that it could strengthen safety.
The 35-year-old Turkish citizen broke by means of an airport gate on Saturday night, fired into the air and threw two incendiary gadgets out of the automotive, based on witnesses, earlier than parking the car underneath a airplane simply outdoors a terminal constructing.
He had reportedly taken his daughter from her mom in Stade, some 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Hamburg, in an ongoing custody battle, and was already underneath investigation for allegedly kidnapping his daughter and taking her to Turkey with out authorization final yr.
Stade police spokesperson Rainer Bohmbach stated that the car used on the airport was a rental automotive, German information company dpa reported. He stated it wasn’t recognized whether or not he labored for a automotive rental firm, however that was unlikely.
The suspect has no weapons allow, stated Liddy Oechtering, a spokesperson for Hamburg prosecutors. She stated they might search to have him saved in custody on suspicion of hostage-taking, removing of a minor and offenses underneath weapons legal guidelines.
The airport operator stated that it’s going to “implement additional development measures to strengthen potential entry factors to the safety space,” dpa reported. It did not give particulars.
“German airports are essentially very protected,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesperson, Steffen Hebestreit, informed reporters in Berlin. However “what we’ve now seen in Hamburg reveals that repeatedly there are gaps within the idea, and that somebody with excessive legal vitality who apparently can be very determined can handle to make use of such gaps.”
“It is usually clear that no idea is so good that it may’t be made even higher,” he stated.