{"id":127447,"date":"2026-07-11T03:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/127447\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:33:09","slug":"woman-taken-hostage-in-berlin-supermarket-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/127447\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman taken hostage in Berlin supermarket, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are mounting a major operation at a supermarket in Berlin&#8217;s southern Marienfelde neighbourhood after a hostage-taking on Friday evening, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man took a woman hostage and threatened her on Friday shortly after 10 pm (2000 GMT), police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;At the moment he is still inside the store and we are now on site with forces here and the operation is still ongoing,&#8221; police spokesman Stefan Petersen-Sch\u00fcmann told dpa early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are in contact with the man, but so far the motive has not been revealed. &#8220;The operation here is still ongoing, so for the moment we cannot say more,&#8221; the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Area cordoned off<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The supermarket is on Hildburghauser Strasse near the city&#8217;s southern edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are mounting a major operation at a supermarket in Berlin&#8217;s southern Marienfelde neighbourhood after a hostage-taking on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190,20411,4680,62086,62085],"class_list":["post-127447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-police-spokesman","tag-supermarket","tag-taken-hostage","tag-woman-hostage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116899243991256826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}