The key facts

  • On November 10, at around 9:00 local time, a man and a woman were injured near the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg
  • The body of the 68-year-old suspect was found in a hotel inside the philharmonic building; suicide is presumed
  • Police are considering a family conflict motive and checking a possible link to the deaths of two people in a municipality near Stuttgart

Shooting near the philharmonic hall and evacuation

On Tuesday morning, November 10, a shooting took place in Hamburg near the Elbphilharmonie. According to the newspaper Bild, the incident occurred at around 9:00 local time (11:00 Moscow time) in the HafenCity district, approximately 150 meters from the concert hall. Two people were wounded — a man and a woman — and they were urgently hospitalized. Hamburger Abendblatt reported that the shooting took place in an underground garage on Am Kaiserkai street, and that the attacker may have used a gas pistol.

Police response

Several police units and a special task force arrived at the scene. The philharmonic building was cordoned off, and visitors inside were evacuated for searches and security checks. According to preliminary data from the Hamburg police, the motive may have been a family conflict. The shooter fled the scene and a search was launched for him.

The suspect's fate and a possible link to another region

By midday the situation became clearer: as the DPA news agency reports citing Life.ru, the body of the 68-year-old suspect was found in one of the rooms of a hotel located inside the concert complex; according to the preliminary version, he took his own life. Investigators do not rule out a family conflict as the reason for the attack, but the nature of the relationship between the suspect and the victims is still being established. The same day, the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered in the municipality of Ehningen unter Achalm near Stuttgart — police are checking whether these deaths are connected to the shooting in Hamburg.