BERLIN, March 3, (APP/AFP) – German police Friday
lifted a bomb alert in a town which had received a threat after
cancelling a rally by Turkey’s justice minister.
“We received a bomb threat by phone at around 7:30 am
(0630 GMT),” Dieter Spannagel, a local official from the western
town of Gaggenau, told AFP.
“The caller cited the cancellation of the event with
the Turkish justice minister as a reason.”
The city hall was evacuated for several hours, but an
all-clear was sounded at 11:35 am after investigators found
nothing suspicious.
Police added that there were no indications as yet on
the identity of the anonymous caller.
The town of about 30,000 inhabitants on Thursday withdrew
an agreement to lease a hall to the Union of European Turkish
Democrats (UETD) for a rally, with Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag
as the guest speaker.