{"id":128208,"date":"2026-07-13T00:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128208\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:06:44","slug":"german-man-charged-with-kidnapping-after-supermarket-hostage-incident-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128208\/","title":{"rendered":"German man charged with kidnapping after supermarket hostage incident in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">German authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 29-year-old man who is accused of holding a woman hostage in a Berlin supermarket for more than 11 hours over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The man was charged on Sunday with kidnapping for ransom, in conjunction with attempted aggravated extortion and dangerous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The man allegedly took the female supermarket employee hostage and threatened her inside a shop in Berlin\u2019s southern Marienfelde neighbourhood on Friday evening shortly after 10pm local time. A spokesman for the public prosecutor\u2019s office said he had held the woman at knifepoint.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After negotiations failed to persuade him to turn himself in, special forces freed the woman in a special operation involving a taser shortly after 9am the next morning.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The woman was taken to a hospital but did not sustain injuries, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The suspected hostage-taker sustained minor injuries during the operation and was also taken to a hospital before being placed in police custody, the police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 29-year-old man who is accused of holding a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,8873,190,14076,62349,62350,13250,10917,62351],"class_list":["post-128208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-hostage","tag-kidnap","tag-marienfelde","tag-rewe","tag-sunday","tag-turkish"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116909754731756780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128208","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=128208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}