Monday, January 17, 2011

Grenade at Croatian embassy in Berlin

"BERLIN — Berlin police on Monday recovered a grenade in a parcel delivered to the Croatian embassy, two days before the country's president was to visit the German capital.
'Police units are at the scene,' the spokesman told AFP.
'It (the grenade) has been removed by technical experts from the Berlin police force and taken to a place where it will be blown up.'
After conflicting reports as to whether the object was in fact a weapon, a police spokeswoman told AFP that a preliminary investigation had confirmed it was a grenade and 'dangerous'.
Meanwhile, the Croatian foreign ministry in Zagreb said that authorities in Berlin had established that the package contained a hand grenade type M 75 and that it was accompanied by a 'threatening letter' but police declined to confirm this.
A spokesman for the embassy in Berlin said that the letter, written in Croatian, had been handed over to German authorities and was received in a courier package sent from Germany.
Berlin police said they had no leads yet on possible suspects or motives, but the incident came ahead of a three-day visit by Croatian President Ivo Josipovic from Wednesday."
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