A bomb attack in Cologne that wounded 22 people probably was the work of criminals and not a terrorist group, Germany’s interior minister said Thursday.
| I guess there's a difference, technically... |
The blast spewed broken glass and debris Wednesday along a street in a Turkish immigrant neighborhood of family shops and residential buildings. "Indications are that it was not terrorists, but the criminal underworld," the interior minister, Otto Schily, said after meeting with his French counterpart, Dominique de Villepin, to discuss security. "Through the design one can conclude that the perpetrator counted on killing many people," a police detective, Dieter Klinger, said at a press conference. He said investigators were still awaiting results of lab tests to determine what explosive was used. The police said that could help determine whether the attack was linked to any others. |