{"id":4488,"date":"2026-06-02T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/germany-gunman-holds-two-children-hostage-officer-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:00:41","slug":"germany-gunman-holds-two-children-hostage-officer-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/germany-gunman-holds-two-children-hostage-officer-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Gunman holds two children hostage &#8211; Officer injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>German authorities in Dortmund have been placed on high alert, where an armed man is holding two young children hostage in a residence in the H\u00f6chsten district.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, he caused an incident at a restaurant in the city, threatening customers and using pepper spray. He then fled by car. During the police chase, he fired from the vehicle with a small-caliber weapon and injured a police officer. The injured officer was wearing a bulletproof vest and, according to initial assessments, sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Threat situation&#8221; in the area<\/h2>\n<p>As <em>WDR<\/em> reports, police are characterizing the incident as a &#8220;threat situation&#8221; in the H\u00f6chsten district of Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>Strong forces have cordoned off the area around the residence where the perpetrator has barricaded himself. According to information from the German newspaper <em>Bild<\/em>, the man grabbed the two children after the shooting and broke into a house, where he remains barricaded.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet provided details about the perpetrator&#8217;s identity or the condition of the two young hostages. The operation continues at an intensive pace. The incident is still ongoing and information remains limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfg-meta\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;font-size:0;height:0;overflow:hidden;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">nfg-origin:gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An armed man is holding two children hostage in Dortmund, Germany after threatening restaurant customers, injuring a police officer during a chase, and barricading himself in a residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[4876,4877,4874,25,4875,4878],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-armed-gunman","tag-children-hostages","tag-dortmund","tag-germany","tag-hostage-situation","tag-police-officer-injured","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}