Bomb threat in Niedernhall: Police evacuate education center!

On Thursday morning, January 9, 2025, the Niedernhall education center was cleared as a precaution. The trigger for the evacuation was a threatening letter that contained a bomb threat by email. The police and explosive detection dogs searched the building, although they found no explosive device. The State Criminal Police Office (LKA) assigned the threat to a nationwide series of similar threats.

In the past few months, schools in Baden-Württemberg and other federal states have received similar threats. At least 16 schools in Stuttgart were affected at the end of November. In the Thuringian city of Erfurt, too, a school had to be cleared on the same day after a bomb threat. According to a spokesman for the LKA, the circumstances of the threats indicate a connection, but so far there has been no concrete risk situation in all cases.

care of the students and teachers

After the evacuation of the education center, around 500 students and teachers were looked after in the nearby town hall. However, the lessons could be resumed on Thursday afternoon. The investigation into the threats continues, such as Tagesschau

Already on October 23, 2023, similar threats had been received in several schools in Germany, including federal states such as Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia. For example, the Drais Community School in Karlsruhe was searched due to a threatening email, but without suspicious finds. Cities such as Augsburg, Regensburg and Cham were affected in Bavaria, while a community school in Erfurt also received threats in Thuringia.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, there were threats to schools in Solingen, Mönchengladbach, Bonn and Wuppertal without having to be found. The ZDF broadcasting center in Mainz and the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen also received threats that led to evacuations and searches. A possible connection between these threats and the Middle East conflict is suspected, with a spokesman for the State Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia pointing to Israel-hostile motifs. The Federal Ministry of the Interior has so far not confirmed such a reference, as SWR reported.

in France there have also been numerous bomb threats in the past few days, including against Versailles Castle.