GERMANY: SIEGE: POLICE STORM CELLAR WHERE IRANIAN MAN IS HOLDING FOUR SCHOOLGIRLS AT KNIFEPOINT, LATEST.

Record ID: 317138

  • Title: GERMANY: SIEGE: POLICE STORM CELLAR WHERE IRANIAN MAN IS HOLDING FOUR SCHOOLGIRLS AT KNIFEPOINT, LATEST.
  • Date: 13th April 2005
  • Summary: (BN11) ENNEPETAL, GERMANY (APRIL 12, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/GV: STATIONARY BUS NEXT TO HOUSE WHERE MAN HOLDING HOSTAGES IN THE CELLAR (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. MV/ZOOM OUT/GV: POLICE OFFICER DIRECTING TRAFFIC, PULLOUT TO WIDE OF SCENE 0.28 3. GV/LV/GV/PAN: PEOPLE STANDING NEXT TO A FENCE TRYING TO LOOK THROUGH IT; PEOPLE STANDING AROUND A POLICE CAR; PEOPLE STANDING BY POLICE CORDON (3 SHOTS) 0.53 4. (SOUNDBITE) (German) MARTIN SCHULTER, WHO WAS TRAVELLING ON THE BUS, SAYING: "I ripped the rope and I told my friend that he should also rip it off and then we ran away." 1.08 5. (SOUNDBITE) (German) MARVIN SCHULTER ANSWERING QUESTION ON WHAT KIND OF ROPE IT WAS, SAYING: "It was a green rope, the kind you use in the garden." 1.16 6. MV: EMERGENCY WORKERS AND PEOPLE STANDING BY 1.22 7. GV/PAN: POLICEMAN WEARING HELMET AND FLAK JACKET WALKING TO TRUCK, PAN TO WIDE OF THE SCENE 1.44 (BN12) ENNEPETAL, GERMANY (APRIL 12, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. DORTMUND POLICE SPOKESMAN JOERG BLASZYK STANDING IN FRONT OF CAMERAS 9. (SOUNDBITE) (German) BLASZYK, SAYING: "Regarding the state of events, the situation has ended. At 18:12 the building was entered, the perpetrator was overpowered. Regarding the status of the hostages, I can unfortunately not tell you anything at the present time." 10. (SOUNDBITE) (German) BLASZYK ANSWERING A QUESTION ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE PERPETRATOR, SAYING: "The perpetrator was overpowered, and is alive." 11. (SOUNDBITE) (German) BLASZYK ANSWERING A QUESTION ABOUT THE PERPETRATOR'S DEMANDS, SAYING: "No. That is still the subject of our enquiries. As said, at 18:12 the building was entered. We were able to overpower the perpetrator and free all of the hostages." 12. (SOUNDBITE) (German) BLASZYK ANSWERING A QUESTION ABOUT HOW MANY HOSTAGES THERE WERE, SAYING: "There were four girls under the age of 16." 2.24 (BN14) ENNEPETAL, GERMANY (APRIL 12, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. LV: PERSON ON STRETCHER BEING CARRIED TO AMBULANCE 2.31 14. GV/GV/PAN: TWO AMBULANCES OUTSIDE; PEOPLE OUTSIDE HOUSE WHERE HOSTAGES WERE HELD; AMBULANCE DRIVING PAST CAMERA (3 SHOTS) 2.52 15. GV: MAN (ALLEGEDLY SUSPECT) WALKING PAST CAMERAS UNDER A SHEET TO THE BACK OF AMBULANCE 2.56 16. GV/PAN: ANOTHER AMBULANCE DRIVES PAST 3.02 17. MV: CAMERAMEN AT THE SCENE 3.08 18. GV: FORENSIC EXPERTS WALKING TO THE HOUSE WITH EQUIPMENT; FORENSIC EXPERTS IN FRONT OF HOUSE EXAMINING EVIDENCE (2 SHOTS) 3.31 19. LV: MEN STANDING BEHIND FENCE LOOKING THROUGH IT 3.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: ENNEPETAL, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6KQCCKAQA50QG9TSMYSXZY7FV
  • Story Text: Hostage crisis over in Germany after police stormed
    a cellar where an Iranian man was holding four schoolgirls
    at knifepoint.



    German police stormed a cellar where an Iranian man
    was holding four schoolgirls at knifepoint on Tuesday (April 12),
    ending a five-hour siege in a western German
    town.

    "The situation has ended. a police spokesman at the
    scene said. "At 18:12 the building was entered, the
    perpetrator was overpowered. Regarding the status of the
    hostages, I can unfortunately not tell you anything at the
    present time," he added.

    He said the hostage-taker was alive.

    The man, aged 50, had threatened a bus driver and
    snatched the children in Ennepetal, a town near the
    industrial Ruhr Valley, at about 1 p.m. (1100 GMT). Six
    other children initially held in the bus managed to escape.

    The man then barricaded himself and his four hostages,
    aged 12 to 16, in the cellar of a nearby house.

    Witnesses said he was demanding his family be allowed
    to join him in Germany, but police could not confirm that.

    "There have been no demands. It's not clear what his
    motive is," a police spokesman said before the siege ended.

    Police special forces surrounded the building where the
    children were being held. The area was cordoned off,
    keeping onlookers several hundred metres (yards) away.


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