Overview
- Berlin police cordoned off the area around Vivantes Klinikum Am Urban in Kreuzberg and searched the building in response to a reported danger.
- The clinic posted on X that the site was accessible again by around 3 p.m. and that no patients or staff were harmed, thanking officers for their response.
- Police said the building sweep did not locate the man described in initial reports.
- Berliner Morgenpost reported that the man had been checked on a bus and allegedly drew a weapon before going into the hospital.
- A 60-year-old patient said he and others were kept from leaving for more than an hour and described seeing SEK officers with submachine guns.