Deadly attack at night
Group penetrates into the apartment-15-year-old crashes from eight floor
Updated on April 14th, 2025 – 2:34 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Violence in the night in a high-rise in Hamburg: five people penetrate into an apartment-shortly afterwards a 15-year-old crashes from the eighth floor. Any help comes too late for him.
After a fatal act of violence in Hamburg-Harburg, the police announced further details. According to the announcement, a 15-year-old spent the night with two acquaintances in an apartment in Wilstorf. Then suddenly several people had violently entered the apartment and had attacked the three. In the course of the attack, the 15-year-old fell into the depth from the balcony of the eighth floor. Despite immediate attempts at resuscitation, the young man was still succumbing to his injuries on site, the police said.
The officers had already arrested five suspects in the morning, as a police spokesman T-Online said. They are four Syrians between the ages of 16 and 20 and an Iraqi at the age of 22. The police had searched for the men and women with more than 20 patrol cars. The five suspects were traveling in a taxi when the police became aware of them and accessed them. According to the “picture”, the victim comes from Iraq, the police did not officially confirm this.
The exact course of the crime is still unclear, as a police spokesman T-Online said. It is not yet known whether the young person was deliberately pushed into the depth or whether it is an unintentional episode of the attack in the apartment. Witnesses and relatives were looked after by the crisis intervention team on site.
In the meantime, a homicide commission has taken over the investigation. In the early morning, police officers armed with machine guns had penetrated the high -rise building on Soltauer Ring. Grab dogs were also in use.
