In this case, however, it seems to be toy heat — for the moment.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

School attacks in Hamburg: They were migrants

400 police officers in Hamburg are hunting down young people who threatened teachers with firearms. According to police, “they moved from school to school.” It is now clear who the perpetrators are.

Hamburg

Civil investigators arrested four perpetrators on Wednesday afternoon who triggered a major police operation. According to officials, they “moved from school to school.” These are two 12-year-old children and a 13- and 14-year-old teenager. According to information from the Hamburger Abendblatt, they have Syrian, Russian, Spanish and Polish migration backgrounds.

First, two of them broke into the Blankenese district school and, on Wednesday afternoon, threatened a teacher who was teaching eighth grade with what appeared to be a firearm. The police were on site with 400 emergency services, evacuated and searched the buildings on Frahmstrasse for hours until they were able to give the all-clear shortly after 3pm.

Second attack in Hamburg school

As the police announced in the evening, there was another threat at the elementary school on Mendelssohnstrasse in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld at 2:50pm. Four perpetrators also threatened a teacher there and were caught by plainclothes police detectives. According to the police, the 12- and 13-year-olds are also said to have committed the crime in Blankenese.

The plainclothes officers found two firearms belonging to the quartet, which turned out to be toy guns. According to the police, they may also have been used in the crime in Blankenese.

Afterword from the translator:

I guess they were just on a training exercise, and when they have their final before they graduate to become full-blown hardened criminals, those weapons will be the real deal. And I guess that when this happens those unarmed teachers and public will then have real “fun” during graduation week.

I take it that it is the same now in Germany as it is here in South Africa: when a criminal apprentice “graduates” into the ranks of the “criminal journeymen” of organized crime syndicates, they have to kill a random person, close up and brutal.