The police are continuing to search for a man who used explosives to trigger a major police operation in Berlin-Neukölln on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Berlin police said on Thursday morning that they were still looking for him.
As the authority announced on platform However, the man fled across the tracks and left behind a bag in which the emergency services found explosives.
It is not yet clear what type of explosive it was, the police spokesman said on Thursday morning. “The results of the investigation are not yet available.” Berlin security circles assume that the explosive was TATP (triacetone triperoxide). A material that is used worldwide by various militias, criminal networks and especially Islamist assassins.
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The officers took the explosive find to the nearby “Thomashöhe” park. According to the police, it was blown up there in the evening in a controlled manner. According to the “BZ”, firefighters dug several holes in order to explode the suspicious substance in a controlled manner. The detonation could be heard several hundred meters away, the paper wrote.
The area around the park on Thomasstrasse had previously been cordoned off extensively. According to the police, there was no danger for residents. Rail traffic at the Neukölln S-Bahn station was not affected by the operation, said a spokeswoman for the Federal Police.
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The man is being searched for. For this purpose, recordings from the Neukölln S-Bahn station should also be evaluated. As a spokeswoman for the Federal Police told the Tagesspiegel, the check on the man was a “suspicion-independent check”. According to the Federal Police Act, this is possible at certain train stations, including this one. When asked on Thursday morning, the Berlin police were initially unable to provide any further information about the person being checked.
As the „Bild“ Reportedly, the man is said to have lost an ID card during his escape, which was made out to a 30-year-old Pole, but was reported as stolen or embezzled since January 21, 2022. According to the report, a so-called police “super recognizer” claims to have recognized from surveillance videos that the fleeing man was not the Pole whose ID was found.
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According to the police, the background to the incident is still completely unclear. Investigations are being carried out in all directions and suspicions of terrorism are also being examined. So far, however, there is no evidence that a planned terrorist attack may have been thwarted, it was said on Thursday morning. Nevertheless, the state security agency responsible for politically motivated acts was also called in by the State Criminal Police Office.
The “BZ” quoted an official: “It looks as if an attack was prevented here. If this explosive device had gone off in close proximity to a group of people, it would have had dramatic consequences.”
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