German authorities say they do not know if the incident was related to the Poland-Netherlands match that was being held in the city a few hours later.
The man came out of a pub in the Reeperbahn region, an area popular with tourists, and began waving his axe threateningly towards police and other bystanders. Police say they repeatedly asked the man to put the axe down and used pepper spray to stop him. The man then pulled out a small firebomb out of his backpack and attempted to detonate it, at which point one of the officers shot him in the leg.
"He put down the pickaxe and then tried to set fire to the Molotov cocktail," a police spokeswoman said. It comes as German Police arrest seven Serbian fans following violent clashes in the city of Gelsenkirchen ahead of their nation's game with England. Footage on social media showed people throwing chairs towards others, causing injury, at a local restaurant.
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