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A bomb threat was received at a concert at the Congress Centrum Pforzheim and several hundred visitors were evacuated.
Pforzheim – The Pforzheim Congress Center is from policeman evacuated due to a threatening situation.
The police evacuated the visitors and ended the event prematurely. © Igor Myroshnichenko / Einsatz-Report24
As a spokesman for the Pforzheim police headquarters TAG24 He confirmed on Sunday morning that a bomb threat call was received ahead of Italian singer Tony Colombo (34) concert on Saturday night.
As a result, everyone in the Congress Center was evacuated (several hundred visitors attended the concert) and had to wait near the building.
In the end, the police ended the event.
The investigation into the incident is still ongoing, according to the spokesperson, there will be more information in the course of the morning.
As now announced by the police, an anonymous person announced by phone at 8:25 p.m. that they had heard that a bomb was about to be detonated at the event, which was to take place starting at 9:30 p.m. Then, officials They asked everyone inside the Congress Center to leave the building before the event started.
At around 10 p.m., the event, which drew around 430 visitors, was finally canceled entirely. As a precautionary measure, guests to an event at the city’s theater that was drawing to a close were also ushered through an exit towards Waisenhausplatz.
No suspicious items were found during searches of the affected facilities. Police rule out a connection to the threat and the eviction of the Pforzheimer Südstadtschule on Tuesday.
The investigation into the threatened phone call received and the accusation of disturbing public order by threatening criminal offenses began immediately and is still ongoing.
