Only a few hours after rampage in Heidelberg - University of Kassel cleared after bomb threat

Created: 01/25/2022, 09:49 am

By: Jonas Raab

students at the University of Kassel.

The campus had to be cleared on Monday evening.

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Uwe Zucchi

Due to a bomb threat, the University of Kassel had to be evacuated.

Obviously opponents of the Corona measures had written the mail.

Kassel - A macabre action shocked Kassel.

Just a few hours after the killing spree at the University of Heidelberg*,

a bomb threat was received in the inbox of the

Target of the alleged attack: the University of Kassel.

The Kassel City Council has been meeting since 4 p.m. on Monday (January 24) in a building at the University of Kassel.

Then at 5.04 p.m. the bomb threat.

, several pipe bombs and two large explosive devices were deposited in the campus center

.

The bombs would detonate at 6 p.m., it said.

Bomb threat at the University of Kassel: the police clear the building at lightning speed

The authorities acted with lightning speed.

The university building was already cleared at 5:15 p.m. *, as

reported

According to a police spokesman, no explosives were found during the subsequent search.

The mission has now ended.

According to the police, the threatening email was sent to a "large distributor".

The police will now investigate against the unknown sender.

The spokesman did not give any further details.

University of Kassel: Lateral thinkers send threatening emails and declare "war"

As

explains, the threatening

seems to come from the lateral thinker milieu* or to have been written by opponents of the Corona measures*.

Accordingly, the sender explained: “Mask requirement, test mania, compulsory vaccination!

You have declared war on the people.

You can have the war.”

While the bomb threat in Kassel turned out to be a bluff, more and more terrible details about the rampage in Heidelberg* are coming to light.

(jo/dpa)