Bomb threat received in German town after Turkish rally cancelled

GAGGENAU

A small German town said it had received a bomb threat on March 3, a day after blocking a rally by Turkey’s justice minister to promote a referendum on expanding the president’s powers.

“We received a bomb threat by phone at around 7:30 this morning. The caller cited the cancellation of the event with the Turkish justice minister as a reason,” Dieter Spannagel, a local official from the town of Gaggenau, told AFP.