Mölln
All clear after SEK deployment at vocational school in Schleswig-Holstein
Police officers in Mölln
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Heavily armed officers positioned themselves around a vocational school in Mölln (Schleswig-Holstein) – hours later the all-clear was given.
The police are in Schleswig-Holstein Mölln (Duchy of Lauenburg district) deployed on Monday morning for a large-scale operation with special forces at a vocational school. The officials announced this on X, formerly Twitter.
A student saw a person with a gun in his waistband and heard a gun being loaded.
All clear after SEK operation at school in Mölln
After the emergency call, the police cordoned off the area and searched the school, including officers from a special operations team. “It is a very large school that needs to be searched. Accordingly, it could take quite a while,” a police spokeswoman told the “Lübecker Nachrichten”. According to police, the students had locked themselves in the classrooms and should be brought to safety as quickly as possible.
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In the afternoon the operation at and in the vocational training center was over. “The search did not lead to the arrest of a suspect,” police said. “After searching the individual building complexes, the students were gradually able to leave the building and were questioned by the police.” The criminal police’s investigations should continue.
The city administration had set up a meeting point for parents in the town hall. The Herzogtum-Lauenburg district administration asked them not to drive to the school grounds.
According to the company’s own information, around 3,500 trainees in more than 50 professions attend the vocational training center in the city of 20,000, and 1,500 were affected by the operation, it said.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated several times.
Sources: Schleswig-Holstein Police, “Lübeck News”, Duchy of Lauenburg district, Mölln vocational training centerDPA news agency