For anyone needing to hit the Central Station in Berlin in the next few hours, you might want to delay your trip. Apparently a suspect suitcase has been found and the polizei are evacuating the station as a safety precaution. I imagine this will delay trains throughout the system?
Scant details in German from Spiegel
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Bomb alert at Berlin Central Station
Suspect suitcase - station evacuated - 11.Aug.2006
this happened in Munich yday but it was a false alarm.
quick translation: at hbf yday police treated a deserted trolley with suspicion. sniffer dogs didn't find any explosives on it, it was found to contain clean clothes, food and reading materials, so the trolley was brought to the Lost and Found. eventually it was found out that the trolley belonged to a Romanian woman who forgot it when she got in a taxi...she only realised she'd forgotten it when she arrived at the airport!
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Ein „herrenlos“ abgestellter Koffer führte zu einem Einsatz der Münchner Polizei, an dem 30 Beamte beteiligt waren. Die Einsatzzentrale wurde am Donnerstag, den 10.08.2006, um 12.30 Uhr verständigt, dass in der Arnulfstraße beim Taxistand ein Trolley unbeaufsichtigt stehen würde.
Ein Sprengstoffhund der Münchner Polizei schlug am Koffer nicht an. Der Trolley wurde daraufhin geöffnet und zum Vorschein kam saubere Kleidung, etwas zu essen und Lesestoff. Damit war der Einsatz gegen 13.20 Uhr beendet. Der Koffer wurde als Fundstück bei der PI 41 (Hauptbahnhof) verwahrt.
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Ein Sprengstoffhund der Münchner Polizei schlug am Koffer nicht an. Der Trolley wurde daraufhin geöffnet und zum Vorschein kam saubere Kleidung, etwas zu essen und Lesestoff. Damit war der Einsatz gegen 13.20 Uhr beendet. Der Koffer wurde als Fundstück bei der PI 41 (Hauptbahnhof) verwahrt.
Mittlerweile ist die Besitzfrage geklärt.
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quick translation: at hbf yday police treated a deserted trolley with suspicion. sniffer dogs didn't find any explosives on it, it was found to contain clean clothes, food and reading materials, so the trolley was brought to the Lost and Found. eventually it was found out that the trolley belonged to a Romanian woman who forgot it when she got in a taxi...she only realised she'd forgotten it when she arrived at the airport!
Yeah Im sure its nothing but I imagine if they are evacuating the stations they are holding the trains? Or do they let them risk going through to avoid system wide delays? Hows it work, anyone know?
but wasn't there a 'suspicious' bag last week in Köln or Düsseldorf at the Bahnhof? But was proven to be a prank, was suppose to look like Anthrax but was baking powder or something.
this is all getting scary.
this is all getting scary.
Real bombs were apparently found in Dortmund and Koblez a short while ago and since then a number of unacompanied bags have been suspected as such all over the country
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Bombenfunde in Koblenz und Dortmund - Terrorverdacht
Der Fund von zwei mit Gasflaschen und Zündmechanismen präparierten Koffern in Dortmund und Koblenz beunruhigt die Behörden: Jetzt hat die Bundesanwaltschaft in Karlsruhe Terrorermittlungen eingeleitet.
Der Fund von zwei mit Gasflaschen und Zündmechanismen präparierten Koffern in Dortmund und Koblenz beunruhigt die Behörden: Jetzt hat die Bundesanwaltschaft in Karlsruhe Terrorermittlungen eingeleitet.
QUOTE (jml @ Aug 11 2006, 11:25 am) 
Scant details in German from Spiegel
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Vor einer Woche war an der gleichen Stelle ein ebenfalls herrenloser Koffer mit einem Hochdruck-Wassergewehr aufgeschossen worden. Das Gepäckstück enthielt aber nur Kleider und Gemüse.
Love this sentence in the Spiegel article - the suspicious suitcase contained only clothes and vegetables (!).
I SUSPECT that Ms. Peacock committed the crime in the airport with the cabbage!
Bomb scare at Freising railway station this morning also.
Crud! This is all happening pretty fast. First Dortmund, then Koblenz now Berlin?! This is too close to home.
Any word on who might be behind it? Statistically speaking, it's probably an Arab group.
Any word on who might be behind it? Statistically speaking, it's probably an Arab group.
QUOTE (profundo @ Aug 11 2006, 2:06 pm)
I SUSPECT that Ms. Peacock committed the crime in the airport with the cabbage!
Cabbage is indeed scary.
As is baking powder.
And isnt it possible to make bombs with baking powder?
Even scarier.
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