SEK Storms Business in Schöneberg to End Hostage-Taking: Latest News and Updates on the Incident
2023-04-25 02:55:00
Hostage-taking in Schöneberg ended – SEK storms business | rbb24rbb24
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Those: Morris Pudwell
Near Kurfürstenstrasse
A hostage situation in Berlin-Schoeneberg runs until the early hours of the morning. Then the SEK storms the business. A woman and a man escape with their lives, the perpetrator dies. Many questions are still open.
The Berlin police ended a hostage-taking in a shop in Berlin-Schoeneberg early Tuesday morning. Special forces broke into a shop on Keithstrasse at around 2:30 a.m., police said on Twitter.
According to the police, the alleged perpetrator committed suicide while a male hostage remained unharmed. According to a dpa photographer, the hostage, who had been in the man’s power for hours, was led to an ambulance.
According to the police, a woman had already been rescued “from the danger area”. She was slightly injured.
The area has been cordoned off | Those: Morris Pudwell
Widely cordoned off
“I can confirm that the mission has ended,” said the spokesman for the German Press Agency early 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 after 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.
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Note: An earlier version of the article mentioned a female hostage. But it is a man. We have corrected the text accordingly.