Admin l Sunday, March 12, 2023
KARLSRUHE – Media reports has it that the young hostage taker at a pharmacy in the south-western German city of Karlsruhe demanded €7 million ($7.44 million).
The owner of the pharmacy, Patrick Kwik, told broadcaster RTL so.
The police have not yet commented on the hostage-taker’s demands. A spokesman also did not want to comment on the report on Sunday.
According to the interview, Kwik himself was one of the hostages. He said he wondered why the 20-year-old suspect had chosen his pharmacy of all places.
“As if we had so much money there,” Kwik told the station, calling the suspected perpetrator a “nutcase.”
He said his pharmacy had already been robbed once at the end of January. At that time, he said, officials had published the exact name of the shop – to make it easier to track down the perpetrator. This had annoyed him, said Kwik. He suspects that after the manhunt, the hostage-taker thought the pharmacy would be an easy target.
