The missing explosive, which was placed by the 55-year-old suspected bomb maker in his ex-wife’s car in Styria, has been found.
As the Styrian State Police announced on Monday, the bomb was hidden behind a barrier in the car at a different location than indicated by the suspect. Only on Friday was the 55-year-old placed in pre-trial detention in Graz-Jakomini prison. He had previously confessed that he had planted the explosives at Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Initially no explosives were found
Initial investigation shows that the suspect did not want to take action against the religious community, but against his ex-wife. During the initial searches, neither a magnet nor other remains of a possible fallen bomb were found.
Explosive detection dogs did not respond
Nevertheless, investigators assumed that the suspect had actually mounted an explosive device on the Styrian woman’s car. It is unclear why the explosive detection dogs did not work.
“The investigators discovered the explosive on Monday afternoon during a detailed investigation using a lifting platform,” police spokesman Markus Lamb explains. “It has been seized and is now being investigated.”
This was an important step, Lamb says, because they had spent the previous weekend trying to search the streets where the car had driven with metal detectors – a difficult undertaking. Because of its design and trigger, police do not assume the bomb was acutely dangerous, but it is not fundamentally harmless either.
Source: Krone
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