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As of: October 31, 2024 1:21 p.m

Yesterday, federal police checked a person in Berlin – who fled and left behind a bag with half a kilo of explosives. The kind of explosive has been utilized in terrorist assaults up to now.

The explosive discovered throughout a police verify on the Berlin-Neukölln S-Bahn station on Wednesday was apparently half a kilo of the extremely explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP). The rbb realized this from sources in safety authorities on Thursday. A person left the explosives behind on Wednesday when he fled from a checkpoint.

When requested by rbb, the police didn’t need to formally touch upon whether or not it was TATP. She neither confirmed nor denied the data. The “BZ” first reported.

TATP – utilized by terrorists, but in addition by ATM blasts

TATP has been used up to now in accomplished or deliberate Islamist terrorist assaults, for instance within the Bataclan membership in Paris or in Brussels. TATP was additionally discovered on the suspect who allegedly wished to hold out an assault on a Taylor Swift live performance in Vienna. But TATP was additionally utilized by criminals, for instance, to explode ATMs.

The cordoned off Thomashöhe on Wednesday night.

Suspect flees over S-Bahn tracks

The man triggered a serious police operation. Federal police wished to verify him on Wednesday afternoon on the Neukölln S-Bahn station, the police stated. It was a “suspicion-independent identity check”, as is carried out on the Neukölln S-Bahn station due to the upper crime price there. However, the person fled over the tracks and left a bag behind. There had been explosives in it.

So far there isn’t a proof {that a} deliberate terrorist assault might have been thwarted, in response to the Berlin police. The federal police have now taken over the investigation. Among different issues, an explosives commissioner and the LKA state safety division are coping with the case.

Explosives detonated in park

TATP has a relatively very excessive explosive energy. It is extraordinarily delicate to influence, friction and warmth, making it so harmful. The crystals of the substance are extraordinarily unstable and may explode spontaneously, for instance as a consequence of variations in temperature or gentle.

The federal police subsequently didn’t take the explosive discover to the standard, extra distant blast website in Grunewald, however to the Thomashöhe park close to the S-Bahn station. Berlin cops cordoned off the world extensively. Pictures present firefighters digging at the very least one gap within the park. The discover was blown up round 8 p.m.

Explosives shall be detonated in Thomashöhe Park on Wednesday night

Police safe photographs of suspect

According to data from the “BZ”, the detonation might have been “heard several hundred meters away”. An official informed the newspaper on Wednesday night: “If this explosive device had gone off close to a group of people, it would have had dramatic consequences.”

The suspect remains to be on the run. The prepare station is beneath video surveillance and the police secured pictures of the suspect.

When requested by rbb|24 on Thursday morning, a spokeswoman for the Berlin police didn’t say what the particular person they had been in search of regarded like. The federal police, who wished to verify the particular person they had been in search of first, stated nothing about why the officers even observed him. The Berlin police and federal police have introduced a joint announcement for Thursday.

Broadcast: Tagesschau24, October 31, 2024, 11 a.m

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