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Police arrested a 22-year-old man this morning for making a fake bomb threat on the MSC Lorena container ship last month.
The container ship has been sitting for a week off the coast of Breskens, because an anonymous caller said the vessel would explode if docked. The man is suspected of threatening with a terrorist offense.
The whereabouts of the man were not disclosed by the police. Further arrests are not excluded, he writes Zealand broadcasting.
Anonymous bomb threat
The MSC Lorena was en route from Senegal to the port of Antwerp on December 21 when Belgian authorities received a bomb threat. The vessel anchored off the coast of Breskens for further investigation.
It wasn’t until a week later that the ship was allowed to set sail for the port of Antwerp under tight security measures. After extensive research, it turned out that there was no explosives were present on the freighter.
