Suspected Dresden hostage taker was likely ‘confused’ lone wolf, German authorities say – National | 24CA News
German authorities stated they’d ended a suspected hostage-taking within the jap metropolis of Dresden on Saturday by what gave the impression to be a psychologically confused man performing alone, after evacuating a shopping center within the historic metropolis heart.
The suspected hostage taker, a 40-year-old man, died of the accidents he sustained through the police operation to free the 2 hostages, who have been unhurt, the police stated.
“I am outraged by the act of what appears to be a psychologically confused individual acting alone,” stated Armin Schuster, the inside minister of the state of Saxony, the place Dresden is situated.
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News outlet TAG24 earlier cited police as saying that the German man was believed to have killed his 62-year-old mom in an house constructing within the Prohlis district of Dresden, southeast of town heart.
It stated that police stated the hostage-taking on the Altmarkt-Galerie shopping center was associated to the killing however declined to offer additional particulars.
Police stated it was re-opening Dresden metropolis heart though the mall would stay closed.
“All-clear! The hostage situation in #Dresden is over!” police stated on Twitter.
The incident comes as safety has shifted into focus in Germany, after investigators earlier this week foiled a far-right plot to overthrow the German authorities and set up an aristocrat because the chief of a brand new state.
(Reporting by Sarah Marsh and Maria Sheahan; Editing by Ros Russell)
