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2017-03-16 Europe

Package containing explosive material discovered in German Finance Ministry

[DW] German police have said a package containing explosives was delivered to Germany's Finance Ministry. Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office has seized and destroyed the package. No injuries have been reported.

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) confirmed that it had been filled with a mixture of low-grade explosives, similar to those found in fire crackers. Police also reported that the mixture is often used in pyrotechnics and could have caused serious injuries, had the package been opened.

Not enough information to determine if this is a true War in Terror situation or Black Bloc anarchists, Turkish Grey Wolves avenging Erdogan's honour, communists, neo-Nazis, or yoots having fun.

I'll take 'yoots having fun' for $600.

The Metro UK article you posted at 8:06 a.m. EDT about the letter bomb sent to the IMF in Paris names the little miscreants:

The incident, just six weeks before a presidential election, comes as a militant Greek group Conspiracy of Fire Cells claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb mailed to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Wednesday.

Minor update from The Times of Israel at 11:30 p.m. EDT, just to get it in the record:

Greece’s interior ministry said authorities in both Greece and Germany were working together on the case.

A Greek police source said the package had a Greek stamp. The “sender” of the parcel was given as a deputy leader of the opposition New Democracy party — along with his real address.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [22 views ] Top

#1 France branch of the IMF and Germany's Finance Ministry. Somebody couldn't get a loan.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-16 08:40|| 2017-03-16 08:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Could be, Skidmark. Wikipedia has an article on the lads. They appeared in 2008 bombing upscale car dealerships and banks, claiming to be a third kind of anarchist -- anarcho-individualism, which is somehow different than social anarchism and insurrectionary anarchism. The article reports nothing on them after 2011.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-03-16 09:58|| 2017-03-16 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee I thought this was a MSNBC article about some scandal in Germany...

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-03-16 22:51|| 2017-03-16 22:51|| Front Page Top

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