it s not clear if the incident is connected to the euros tournament. earlier my colleague spoke to gary rose on the telephone who is currently in hamburg. i m at the stadium now, which is around about five miles away from the centre of hamburg. i was in the fan zone area this morning where it seems reported that this incident took place. and there was thousands of dutch fans at that point because they always do a traditional walk to the stadium. and throughout the morning, obviously, there was no indication of any trouble. since i ve got to the stadium, that s when the news developed. and at the moment, everything seems to be going ahead here as planned, basically. how many supporters are in the city? so, this fan walk particularly was expected to be around 30,000 dutch fans. i would imagine there s sort of similar ish figures for the polish fans as well. majority, this is about a 40,000, 45,000 seat stadium. so with 15,000 tickets sold, i believe, for each sets of supporters
the attacker was injured in the leg and has been receiving medical care putters intend to discuss my condition is not considered life threatening. the police use peppe life threatening. the police use pepper spray and then fired several shots. this video doesn t capture all of those shots fired, there were more. we ve paused them at the moment when some of those gun shots were fired. german authorities have put police on high alert during the euros tournament. here s a spokesperson for the hamburg police, speaking shortly after the incident. translation: according to what we know now, i a man came out of a restaurant. he obviously had a molotov cocktail in his hand and also pickaxe. he also apparently tried to set fire to this molotov cocktail and then walked towards several people with it, including police officers who were on duty here at the time. and the police officers then made use of their firearms. we re assuming that this is an isolated case, which means that it s n
police in hamburg have shot and injured a person who threatened them with an axe. police use pepper spray, and then fire several shots. this video doesn t capture all of those shots fired, there were more. we ve paused them at the moment when some of those gun shots were fired. earlier my colleague nicky schiller spoke to bbc sportjournalist gary rose on the phone, he s currently in hamburg. i m at the stadium now, which is around about five miles away from the centre of hamburg. i was in the fanzone area this morning where it seems reported that this incident took place. and there was thousands of dutch fans at that point because they always do a traditional walk to the stadium. and throughout the morning, obviously, there was no indication of any trouble. since i ve got to the stadium, that s when the news developed. and at the moment, everything seems to be going ahead here as planned, basically. how many supporters are in the city? so, this fan walk particularly was expec
and then fire several shots. this video doesn t capture all of those shots fired, there were more. we ve paused them at the moment when some of those gun shots were fired. german authorities have put police on high alert during the euros tournament. here s a spokesperson for the hamburg police, speaking shortly after the incident. translation: according to what we know now, a man came out of a restaurant. he obviously had a molotov cocktail in his hand and also pickaxe. he also apparently tried to set fire to this molotov cocktail and then walked towards several people with it, including police officers who were on duty here at the time. and the police officers then made use of their firearms. we re assuming that this is an isolated case, which means that it s not football related. there s obviously no football connection, but we re dealing with an individual offender. and in this respect, i don t see any danger at all or any impact on the game today. i v e i ve just been i v