He has maintained its doors closed for hours this Wednesday, after a “verified explosive alert” was broadcast, as explained by the city mayor, Dieter Reiter. The alert has finally deactivated with the notice that the beer festival area will reopen its doors at 17.30, according to Reiter, cited by the German media. The threat occurred after registering in a series of explosions and a fire in a single -family house in the city, in southern Germany. A person died in the incident, which triggered a great police operation and search for possible explosives that forced to close the area where the Munich Beer Festival is celebrated since September 20.
The German police, who went to the place of the incident in the house, said it was a “intentional” fire, as a result of a family dispute, although this detail is yet to be confirmed, according to EFE. The German special forces investigate the incident, which left a deceased, in, after the police found some explosives in a residential building in the area.
German media like the newspaper Bild They pointed out an “incident in which shots and explosions were heard” in the north of the city, confirms Reuters. It is suspected, as the Münchner Merkur, that this alert was linked to explosions and fire. Speaking to this media, Reiter said before lifting the alert: “We cannot run the risk of opening the oktoberfest.”
The mayor of Munich has also indicated the existence of a letter that “must be taken seriously” and that is related to the incident that occurred in the city. It is suspected that the author of the letter is also the alleged responsible for the facts.
In a publication on the X network, the Munich police said that it was “investigating all the possibilities” and “examining possible connections with other places in Munich, including Theresienwiese [donde se celebra el ]”He added that” for this reason, the opening of the festival enclosure has been delayed. ”
On the official website of the Oktoberfest, the organizers Han, as a consequence of the explosion in the north of the city.
