Jehovah’s Witnesses have another bomb threat, this time in Graz! A suspicious package was found at the entrance to the Kingdom Hall in Graz-Eggenberg on Thursday evening. Evacuations took place and a large-scale police operation took place, including a defuse service. But the ‘all clear’ was quickly given.
On Thursday evening around 7 p.m., a member of the religious community in Graz-Eggenberg called the police emergency number because he had found a package in the entrance area of the Kingdom Hall – packages are not normally delivered here. After a bomb was planted and subsequently defused at Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kalsdorf in Styria on Good Friday, people were on high alert. “The police arrived with a large contingent and the room where some people were sitting was evacuated,” police spokesman Markus Lamb told the “Krone”.
Evacuations of residents of surrounding houses
Residents of nearby houses were also quickly brought to safety. The Red Cross was also deployed as a precaution. Using special technical equipment, SKO agents and dismantlers of the EKO Cobra/DSE then investigated the package. It soon turned out that it was a package containing clothing. “Apparently it was delivered incorrectly,” Lamb said. After the all-clear was given, the closure measures were lifted again. No one was injured.
Research group expanded
Meanwhile, the investigation into two actual explosives in the vicinity of the Kingdom Halls in Leibnitz (August 2023) and Kalsdorf continues intensively. Following initial indications and recent findings of a highly likely link between the two incidents, the police have expanded the staff and structure of its specially appointed investigation team.
“The leading officers of the State Office for State Security and Combating Extremism (LSE) receive interdisciplinary support from criminal experts from various departments of the Styrian State Criminal Investigation Department (LKA). The experienced detectives always receive additional expertise from explosives experts from the police (SKO), the harmless service (ESD) from the EKO Cobra/DSE and from various forensic scientists from various departments,” the police said.
Source: Krone
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