Police check suspicious object at Merkel’s office
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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.
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A police car is parked in front of the chancellory in Berlin.
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