Als Tourist in Portugal?
Apparently German hostage-taker shot
05/13/2022, 00:38
In the early morning, the Portuguese police shoot a hostage-taker. According to the police, the “very tall and strong man” is said to have been a German who was in Portugal as a tourist.
The police in Portugal shot a hostage-taker who, according to consistent media reports, was German. The man was killed in the early hours of the morning in Algés, about ten kilometers west of Lisbon, after “several attempts to persuade him to give up failed,” the police said. Whether the dead man was actually a German, the police did not want to confirm or deny until the evening.
The “very tall and strong man,” armed with two knives, seriously injured a hostage and slightly injured a police officer, the statement said. The police regret “the death of the attacker” and have initiated internal investigations, it said. The background to the incident initially remained unclear.
As the TV channel CNN Portugal and other media reported, citing police forces, the dead man was a German tourist who, armed with two knives, broke into the house of a compatriot shortly before 5 a.m. When the police arrived, the attacker took at least one man hostage.
He was “completely beside himself” and probably under the influence of alcohol. The suspect behaved “uncooperatively,” prompting police officers from a special unit to have reportedly fired “three or four shots in the air.” Shortly thereafter, the suspect approached the officers, who fired “about three or four shots at the level of the lower limbs and maybe the abdomen”. “The German citizen was hit and died on the spot,” CNN wrote.