Suspicious person with weapon? Large deployment at school in Bavaria

In Roth in Middle Franconia, on Friday afternoon Major deployment of the police at a school. As the Middle Franconia police headquarters announced on X, the area around a middle school in Peter-Henlein-Straße was closed. « We were given a suspicious observation, » the officials reported first. The police were on site with numerous forces.

The civil servants tried to clarify the situation quickly. As the police specified, « a suspicious person was communicated, which is said to have kept a gun with you« . At the time before 5 p.m., the officials finally gave the all -clear: » All students were handed over to their parents. The entire school was checked by emergency services. Neither a suspect was found nor found a weapon, « the police wrote. The deployment in Roth had ended.

Large police operation in Roth: Sighted person with weapon spotted

The students stayed in the school building for several hours beyond the end of school. The young people were found in the respective classrooms until they were brought out of the school building in the late afternoon and handed over to their parents. The police special forces had to go to the school building to search for it.

Suspicious person at school in Roth? Set up contact for parents

A contact point has already been set up for the parents. This was initially at the north cemetery and was later moved to Nordring 2 in Roth. All students were brought to the parent collection point after the school was searched. There was a psychosocial emergency care for the students on site.

Roth is located in the district of the same name about 20 kilometers south of Nuremberg and has around 25,000 inhabitants.