Materials for making bomb discovered in possession of teen.
German police in Essen have discovered materials for making bomb in the possession of a 16-year-old boy suspected of planning an attack at a school, the local interior minister said on Thursday.
Herbert Reul, Interior Minister of the state of North Rhine Westphalia, where Essen is located, said the bomb-making materials and other explosive substances were discovered during a raid of the teen’s home.
Reul said shortly afterwards, the police launched a large-scale operation at two Essen schools — the Don-Bosco-Gymnasium and the Realschule am Schloss Borbeck, in the early hours of Thursday.
“The police had likely prevented a nightmare that the teenager planned with the bomb-making materials,” the minister said.
The minister added that the bomb-making materials had not included a fuse, meaning that the explosive device had been “functional but not operational.”
