No bomb found

Attack threat against a school – evacuation

The pupils and teachers were evacuated.

(Bild: Team Fotokerschi/Hofer)

At 10 a.m., the Upper Austrian police received a threatening e-mail. This time the Ramsauergymnasium in the Bindermichl district of Linz was threatened. The school was evacuated and investigations are ongoing. The all-clear has now been given, no explosive device has been found. There was also another bomb threat in Graz this morning. 

It was again an e-mail that was received by the provincial police headquarters in the morning. Once again, an attack on a school - the BG Ramsauerstraße - was threatened. Numerous police units set off to evacuate the school. Around 700 pupils had to leave the building. Strikingly, there was also a threat against a school in Graz at almost the same time.

Numerous emergency services were on site.

(Bild: Constantin Handl)

Threat also on Friday
Last Friday, the Otto Glöckel School in Linz was threatened with an attack. On Tuesday, it was then the turn of the Ramsauergymnasium. Internally, the police are assuming that there were copycats after bomb threats against train stations caused a stir and delays nationwide.

Not an isolated case
On September 14, the Karlhof School in Linz-Urfahr had to be evacuated and searched. Shortly after 7 a.m., a caller had made a bomb threat to the police. Late in the morning, the police gave the all-clear: nothing dangerous was found.

All-clear in the afternoon
The all-clear has now also been given for the Ramsauergymnasium: shortly before three o'clock, the police announced that a search of the building had not uncovered any explosive devices. The cordoned-off area could be released again. Investigations are continuing, the police said.