Because of a threat situation in a Cologne daycare center, the police cordoned off the area around the facility in the Riehl district.
According to initial findings, an employee reported via the emergency number in the afternoon that a suspicious man had entered the daycare and threatened to "blow up" the building, said the Cologne police.
Cologne - The educators would have led the children out of the building.
All children were given to their parents.
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