As part of police investigations, emergency services search a residential building in Berlin's Grunewald: because there is a suspicion that they will find explosive ordnance, the fire brigade, the Bundeswehr and the Robert Koch Institute are also involved in the operation. But they don't seem to find anything.
Together with the Bundeswehr and the Robert Koch Institute, the police searched an apartment in a residential building in Berlin's Grunewald district on Friday evening on suspicion of explosives. According to the first investigation, the search for explosives did not result in anything, the police said.
The rapid tests to analyze explosives that were carried out on site were negative, a police spokesman said early in the morning. The searched apartment in the house will remain closed until the samples have been analyzed in the next few days. The other residents of the house could return to their apartments, it said.
The operation was carried out "due to suspicions of endangering a resident," said a police spokesman. There was a suspicion that third parties could have deposited explosives in the apartment of the person concerned. They searched for explosives and biological substances.
According to the information, the police had become aware of a possible dangerous situation during investigations, which the police have now been able to rule out. Residents had to leave the house. Defusers from the police were in the apartment together with employees from the Robert Koch Institute and forensic technology. The fire department was also involved in the operation.
