According to a spokeswoman, the police in Aachen received an email threatening the city’s justice center during the night. Other cities and institutions also received mail.
Düsseldorf – In North Rhine-Westphalia, the police are on duty on Friday morning after bomb threats at several courthouses in Aachen and other cities. According to a spokeswoman, the police in Aachen received an email threatening the city’s justice center during the night.
It has been evacuated and is currently being searched with explosives dogs. According to a spokesman, the operation at the district court in Viersen had already ended in the morning. Nothing was found.
According to dpa information, there had been court appearances in other cities, including Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach. Everywhere there had been emails threatening to detonate a bomb.
There was a similar series of bomb threats by e-mail in North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of October. No bombs were found. Investigators eventually found an innocent man whose computer system had been used by an unknown person to send the email. dpa
