> According to the police, they are now in contact with the gunman at Hamburg airport. “We have just made good contact with the perpetrator,” said a police spokeswoman late on Saturday evening. Negotiations with the presumably 35-year-old man were being conducted in Turkish. A special police task force and a police psychologist are on site. The man reportedly had a four-year-old child in the car with him.
>The police assume that a custody dispute was the reason for the man’s violent intrusion onto the apron. According to the information available so far, the child that the man had with him was staying with the mother in Stade on Saturday. It is assumed that the father “took the child away” from the mother and possibly put her in the car under the influence of force before driving to Hamburg and onto the airport tarmac, a police spokeswoman said in response to an inquiry in the evening.
>On the apron, the man had thrown two burning bottles out of the car, “a kind of Molotov cocktail”, said Gerbert. No damage was caused and the airport fire department was able to extinguish the bottles.
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From [spiegel.de](https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/hamburger-flughafen-gesperrt-bewaffneter-hat-tor-durchbrochen-a-63586401-6f4f-4b19-9a71-68e9c46d3558), translated via DeepL:
> According to the police, they are now in contact with the gunman at Hamburg airport. “We have just made good contact with the perpetrator,” said a police spokeswoman late on Saturday evening. Negotiations with the presumably 35-year-old man were being conducted in Turkish. A special police task force and a police psychologist are on site. The man reportedly had a four-year-old child in the car with him.
>The police assume that a custody dispute was the reason for the man’s violent intrusion onto the apron. According to the information available so far, the child that the man had with him was staying with the mother in Stade on Saturday. It is assumed that the father “took the child away” from the mother and possibly put her in the car under the influence of force before driving to Hamburg and onto the airport tarmac, a police spokeswoman said in response to an inquiry in the evening.
>On the apron, the man had thrown two burning bottles out of the car, “a kind of Molotov cocktail”, said Gerbert. No damage was caused and the airport fire department was able to extinguish the bottles.
Removed, removed, removed. We all know why.