A large area around Nuremberg Central Station was cordoned off on Friday afternoon.
A passer-by had reported a suspicious item there.
Now the all-clear.
Update from December 4, 8:08 p.m.:
The
police
give the all-clear.
The suspicious object, which according to the officials
looked
like a
pipe bomb
, was found to be harmless.
The
experts from
the State
Criminal Police Office
examined the screwed sheet metal pipe and found that it was empty.
Thereupon the
Nuremberg police
stopped the operation at the
train station
around 7 p.m.
and lifted the barriers again.
It has not yet been possible to determine where the item came from.
Suspicious item found near Nuremberg train station
(Initial report)
Nuremberg
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Nothing is going
on on the streets in
downtown Nuremberg
at the moment.
The reason, however, is not the rush hour traffic, but a
suspicious object
near the train station.
The
police
cordoned off a large area of the affected area.
Now it has to be clarified whether the object poses any danger.
Large-scale operation in Nuremberg: passer-by reports suspicious object at the moat
In the afternoon the call was received by the
Nuremberg police *
.
A passer-by discovered a
suspicious object
near the train station *.
More precisely, the property is located in the
moat
near the
Königstorpassage
.
The
police
immediately went and cordoned off the area within a radius of about 100 meters.
The train traffic and local public transport are not affected by the blockage, the
police
said
.
Now the officials have
requested
support from
Munich
.
Experts from the
State Criminal Police Office
should now take a closer look at the suspicious item.
Further details are not yet known.
However, the
police
ask all drivers in Nuremberg *
to circumvent
the area around the
train station
generously.
(tel) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
An aerial bomb was only found in Nuremberg a few days ago.
Here, too, the area was cordoned off over a large area.
Residents had to leave their homes.