China News Agency, Berlin, July 4 (Reporter Peng Dawei) On the 3rd, the city halls of four cities in Augsburg, Essen, Leipzig and Mannheim, Germany, received bomb threats. The police searched the city hall and found no suspicious objects. The case is currently under investigation.

  According to information released by the Augsburg police in Bavaria, southern Germany, in the early morning of the 3rd of this month, the city government of Augsburg received an anonymous email in which it threatened to place a bomb in the city hall of Augsburg.

  The city government of Augsburg immediately reported the local police. The police evacuated the city hall on the morning of the 3rd and partially blocked the square in front of the city hall. After investing about 30 police forces and two sniffing dogs, the police did not find suspicious objects in the city hall of Augsburg, and then released the bomb alarm at noon.

  According to media reports from West German Broadcasting, Chinese German Broadcasting and the Mannheim Morning Post, the city of Essen in the north of the West, the city of Leipzig in the east of Saxony, and the city of Mannheim in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg were also received on the same day. In response to the bomb threat from the local city hall, the police failed to search for any suspicious objects.

  The local police in Augsburg said that there was also a mail "fraud bomb" incident in March 2019. Many German cities and municipal governments, including Augsburg, received bomb threats. However, in response to the question of whether the two incidents are related, the police said that at present they cannot give an answer.

  The Criminal Investigation Department of Augsburg has now taken over the investigation of the case and is in communication with the police in the aforementioned three places. (Finish)