As the police said upon request, the explosion occurred on Wednesday morning shortly before 5 a.m. The scene of the fire was a clothing store near Ehrenstrasse, which is busy during the day.
According to the police, initial suspicions that a passerby was injured were not confirmed. The fire brigade has already extinguished the fire. The police have now begun their investigation. It is not yet clear whether the explosion was caused intentionally or whether it was caused by a technical defect. A possible connection with an explosion on Monday is also the subject of the investigation.
It is still unclear whether there are surveillance images of the new crime. The images published on Monday came from police video surveillance at Hohenzollernring. According to the information, police video surveillance is in place at several locations in Cologne. “We do not have police video surveillance at the Ehrenstrafe. If there are images, we are dependent on other video surveillance,” said the spokesman. “There must first be images of the appropriate quality, if there are any at all.”
