Threat situation
Further threats against schools and radio stations
Police forces in front of the Alexander von Humboldt secondary school in Bayreuth. photo
© Pia Bayer/dpa
On Monday, bomb threats were received at schools across Germany and against ZDF. The series continues. Schools in Erfurt and Bayreuth as well as a radio station in Weimar are affected.
At three schools in the Thuringian state capital Erfurt received threats this morning. These were not bomb threats, said a police spokeswoman at the request of the German Press Agency. She spoke of “threats of violence.” The messages were read at different times at the respective schools in Erfurt, said the spokeswoman. “That’s why we’re at different points with the measures at the three schools,” she said.
Accordingly, one school has already been evacuated, the second school has not yet started school, so only after-school children had to be evacuated. At the third school, the threat was only “fresh” and the measures were “still at the beginning”. The buildings at all three schools have not yet been searched, said the spokeswoman. A school in Bayreuth, Bavaria, was also evacuated in the morning.
Bomb threat against radio station in Weimar
After a bomb threat against a radio station with several radio stations, the building in Weimar was evacuated. The employees were evacuated, according to the Jena police. Explosives tests are now being carried out. The police said the sender of the threatening email was “Hamas”. The broadcasting center of “Antenne Thüringen”, “Landeswelle Thüringen” and “Radio Top40” was affected.
On Monday, threats against several schools nationwide triggered major police operations. Schools affected were in Erfurt, Augsburg, Regensburg and Cham (Bavaria), in Karlsruhe and Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg), Solingen and Wuppertal (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Chemnitz (Saxony). ZDF in Mainz was also briefly evacuated due to a bomb threat.