Hamburg Bank Robbery Of 1974

Hamburg, West Germany, April 18, 1974

The attack on a Hamburg branch of Commerzbank on April 18, 1974 went down in German police history because it was here that the so-called final rescue shot was used for the first time . The perpetrator was killed.
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Around noon, the Colombian engineering student Emilio Humberto Martin-Gonzales [1] entered the Commerzbank branch on Steindamm in the St. Georg district of Hamburg and threatened the bank employees and customers with a knife and a pistol . When three patrol cars received reports of the hostage-taking at 12:26 p.m. , they drove with a special signalto the bank, which later turned out to be a tactical error. Upon arrival, one of the officers, 34-year-old policeman Uwe Faden, stormed the bank with his gun drawn and was shot by the hostage-taker. Now the then newly founded MEK also moved in. There were now seven hostages and the perpetrator in the bank . At 12:35 p.m. the perpetrator called the police headquarters on the emergency number 110 and asked for a getaway car.
The NDR reported a water pipe burst in the area to keep onlookers away from the bank. But the bogus report did not stop many people from coming to the scene. Due to the danger, the police then cleared the street and adjacent buildings. At this point in time, the criminal police had taken over the command .

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