2023-04-25 03:35:43
A hostage-taking in a shop in Berlin-Schoeneberg came to a bloody end on Tuesday morning. Special forces broke into the affected store on Keithstrasse shortly following 2:30 a.m., police said on Twitter. According to the police, the perpetrator committed suicide while his male hostage was unharmed. According to a dpa photographer, the hostage, who had been in the man’s power for hours, was led to an ambulance.
A woman had previously been rescued “from the danger area,” a police spokesman said. She was slightly injured.
“I can confirm that the mission has ended,” said the spokesman for the German Press Agency on Tuesday morning. The first emergency calls to a raid on the shop in Schöneberg on Monday around 5.30 p.m. triggered the large-scale operation not far from Wittenbergplatz. The area between Kurfürstenstrasse, Kleiststrasse and Keithstrasse was cordoned off for hours.
In addition to SEK officers, ambulances and paramedics also rushed to the crime scene. Shortly following their arrival, the emergency services were able to arrest another man “relatively early”, as the police spokesman said. Whether it was an accomplice of the hostage-taker is now the subject of the investigation. Both men were armed.
During the operation, the police asked on Twitter not to publish any photos of what was happening at the crime scene: “We urgently ask passers-by, local residents and press representatives not to publish any pictures of our emergency services and operational measures in Schöneberg during the ongoing operation impede operations and endanger persons involved.”
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