German hostage taker demanded $7.44 million -Pharmacy owner

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Special police forces arrest a suspect. Photo: Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa
Special police forces arrest a suspect. Photo: Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa

 

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.

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