explosives found in a house in the vicinity of Trier has triggered a large-scale operation of the police and fire Department. The police found on Wednesday evening, searches in the basement of a multi-party house in the municipality of Igel, “highly explosive” explosives, such as the police headquarters Trier announced. Police and firefighters closed off the area and brought the residents to safety. After the defusing of the explosive all-clear was given. There was an arrest.
The exact Background was in the Morning, is still unclear. A political motive was not there.
The police had explained to the house in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality near the border with Luxembourg on Wednesday evening “in the context of a police investigation” searches, such as the police headquarters in Trier. After the discovery of explosives in the basement of an expert of the country the crime was called in office. This stated that the explosives “highly explosion was dangerous”.
residents in a Radius of 200 metres of the site were taken to safety. According to police 150 people were evacuated. About 100 people were in a gym, where they were fed by helpers, the police announced. Several roads in hedgehog were blocked, and also the rail traffic was temporarily suspended.
In the night of Thursday, the authorities gave the all-clear: The “dangerous artifacts” to be safely removed from the house and at a remote location outside of the hedgehog has been defused, said the police. After the explosives-sniffing dogs no longer work in the house, were suspended, the suspensions, the residents were able to return to their homes. At about the same time, the blocked streets were free again.
More Details – such as the identity of the arrested or the type of explosive substance not known to the investigators first. In the operation, according to the 36 police officers and 150 volunteers from fire and rescue services were involved.
A Person was arrested “on suspicion of explosive offense”, as the police said. “According to the current state of the investigation a politically motivated Background of the trade is to exclude people.” The police in Trier determined. (AFP, dpa)