A hostage situation at Hamburg Airport involving a young child has ended after 18 hours, according to local police.
The man, 35, drove through a security barrier and on to the airport tarmac on Saturday night with his four-year-old daughter in the car and parked under a plane.
It began at about 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT) when the suspect drove his car to the airport’s apron, the area where aircraft are usually parked.
Hamburg police spokeswoman Sandra Levgruen said earlier on Sunday that the man did not agree with some decisions made by the authorities in relation to the custody arrangement and wanted to travel to Turkey with the child.
They said he had taken their daughter following an argument and her mother then alerted emergency services - filing a complaint of suspected child abduction.
“I wish the mother, the child and her family a lot of strength to cope with this terrible experience,” Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on X after the hostage situation ended.
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