Police check suspicious object at Merkel’s office
German Chancellor Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin.
The office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been sealed off due to a suspicious package, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
“We are investigating a suspicious package,” a spokesman for Germany’s Federal Police told Reuters.
A Reuters eyewitness said there were four plastic yellow postal crates in the cordoned off area.
“We are investigating a suspicious package,” a spokesman for Germany’s Federal Police told Reuters.
Officers were waiting for specialists to inspect the package, he added.
In 2010, police intercepted a package containing explosives sent from Greece to Merkel’s office.
Europe has entered 2016 under a state of heightened alert, seven weeks after Islamist militants killed 130 people in shootings and suicide blasts across Paris.
The incident follows a security scare over New Year after police received a tip that militants from Iraq and Syria were planning attacks in Munich.
A police car is parked in front of the chancellory in Berlin.
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