Hamburg police shoot man with axe and ‘Molotov cocktail’ ahead of Euro 2024 game
![Hamburg police shoot man with axe and ‘Molotov cocktail’ ahead of Euro 2024 game](https://www.expressandstar.com/resizer/Yp8hwY_481lS_x_aPnN9aeZfMkI=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mna/KZUSMVLTZRDJPDFQ53ZJJJDTYM.jpg)
The incident took place near the city’s fan park in the St Pauli district around two and a half hours before the Netherlands faced Poland.
Hamburg police have shot a man they say was armed with an “axe-like object” and a “Molotov cocktail” just hours before the city staged its first game of Euro 2024.