Large deployment in Stockerau: Police clears the train station because of a bomb threat!

Large deployment in Stockerau: Police clears the train station because of a bomb threat!

On April 9, 2025, a major operation of the police occurred at the train station in Stockerau, Lower Austria. The station was cleared and closed due to a possible bomb threat, which led to significant impairments of train traffic. As 5min.at , the measure has been initiated as a response to repeated threats that had been received in various Austrian train stations.

already late Wednesday evening this incident occurred, whereupon the police closed off the area around the train station. Kleine Zeitung indicates that the exact background of the threat at the time of the operation was still unclear. The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) confirmed that there were no regular features because of the lock.

repeated threats and evacuations

In the past few days, several bomb threats have taken place at various train stations in Austria, including in Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Klagenfurt and St. Pölten. These threats were mostly sent to the police by email, which recently led to a two-hour lock of the St. Pöltner train station. According to My district the first threat was received on Monday at the Styria Styria, whereupon the main station and the main train station were evacuated there.

The security forces take these threats seriously, even if they often led to false alarms in the past. No explosives or dangerous objects were found in the previous operations at affected train stations. A similar incident occurred in January 2025 when the Graz main station was evacuated and searched without something suspicious. A 20-year-old Swiss, which is associated with a series of bomb threats, could be responsible for the current wave of threats, such as