Overview
- Police say the 40-year-old poured a flammable liquid over herself and her two sons, then tried to ignite it.
- She reportedly drank the substance and forced it into one child before bystanders intervened.
- The incident occurred Friday around 16:40 in a supermarket on Duckwitzstraße in Bremen’s Neustadt district.
- Emergency crews provided first aid at the scene and took the boys, ages four and eight, and their mother to hospitals.
- Criminal police and the Bremen prosecutor’s office are securing evidence and questioning witnesses, and early reports described the woman as “psychologically conspicuous.”