There's a set procedure, which typically requires three or four days of preparation and then a massive evacuation episode.
In this case....Frankfurt cops wanted roughly 70,000 people to leave one particular area of west-Frankfurt this morning (Sunday).
In the last hour or two....the removal of the bomb has been halted because people refuse to evacuate the area. Why? This type of drill happens throughout Germany on a regular basis, and people have reached a stage where they don't think it's a serious matter. The zone affected? Well....it is a hefty sized zone....I will admit. We aren't talking a two-block by two-block zone....it goes well past that point.
The thing is that the cops now have to react....barge into a guy's apartment, and basically apprehend the guy. All of this is wasting time and folks are on a pretty strict schedule...hoping to get hospital patients back into their beds by late this afternoon. Right now, the cops are saying two groups (small in nature) are absolutely refusing to budge.
The bomb involved? Brit-made bomb...a dud....model HC-4000. What they say is that within 100 meters...it ought to completely destroy buildings, and up to 2 kilometers....it would destroy windows and doors. This was a bomb designed to go off in the air, and destroy roofs....then helping to start fires.
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