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Emergency services at the comprehensive school in Dinslaken (on May 25, 2022)
Photo: Erwin Pottgiesser / dpa
After a large-scale police operation at a comprehensive school in Dinslaken on Wednesday, the investigators gave the all-clear.
There was no danger, nobody was threatened, the police said on Friday.
According to the police, an employee of the comprehensive school on the Lower Rhine saw a young person in a basement room on Wednesday afternoon who is said to have held a firearm in his hand.
When the teenager noticed the employee, he fled.
The school was then cordoned off and searched.
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The weapon is a stun gun, the police said, but from a distance it is indistinguishable from a real gun.
Three young men who have been arrested for the time being - two 16-year-old students from the school and a 19-year-old man from Dinslaken - are now free again.
The 19-year-old reported to the police on Thursday and led the officers to the gun he had buried, the statement said.
Around 800 students and their teachers had to wait for hours in their classrooms and were only able to leave the school in the evening under police escort.
The incident will be further processed together with the school management, it said in the message.
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