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Adolescents Are Supposed to Have Faked Hostage Taking

In an online chat, someone posts that he has people in his power and demands ransom. Police arrive with special forces and meet a young person - without hostages.
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Special police units stormed an apartment in the Hamm district on Thursday afternoon (7.5.) and arrested the 16-year-old who was there. Previously, there had been an anonymous online chat at about 1:30 p.m., where the suspect claimed that he had a person hostage in his control and demanded money for the release. The police took the possible hostage taking Ernst and alarmed a special unit. This overpowered the youth, who was alone at his home add…

In an online chat, someone posts that he has people in his power and demands ransom. Police arrive with special forces and meet a young person - without hostages.

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aachener-zeitung.de broke the news on Thursday, May 7, 2026.
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