However, the intelligence services have become concerned about the case since cars with such explosive devices are often used by terrorists, the daily writes in its Prague issue. Security guards from the shopping centre took note of the car and called a bomb-disposal expert.
He found out that the planted device was luckily nonexplosive. This is why the case is being investigated by a district police only. Denik writes that the police revealed a petrol can with a detonator connected to a mobile phone in the old Russian-made car that thereby turned into a New Russian President to visit Germany ...
IntMin to reinforce intelligence over terrorism threat - press ... remote-controlled bomb. Experts say that a possible explosion of the five-litre petrol can as well as the 30-litre petrol tank in the car would threaten the area in the radius of several dozen metres, the paper writes. "We know about the case. It is a police matter. In general, we are closely cooperating with the police in the protection of the state against a terrorist attack," BIS civilian counter-intelligence service spokesman Jan Subert told the paper. Neither the police anti-terrorist unit nor a squad for uncovering serious crimes investigate the case, Denik writes, referring to organised crime squad spokesman Pavel Hantak.
(Ceske Noviny)
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