50-year-old arrested after bomb threat

An anonymous bomb threat by telephone led to a police operation in the city of Zug on Friday. The perpetrator was arrested in Germany a few hours later.

Shortly before 2 p.m. on Friday, a company on the Terrassenweg in Zug received an anonymous bomb threat by telephone. Around a dozen people had to evacuate the residential and commercial building as a precaution, as the Zug police reported in a statement on Saturday. A search with specialist dogs found no suspicious items.

The building could then be used again. In the course of the investigation, a suspect, a 50-year-old German national, was arrested in Germany during the evening. This arrest came just hours after the telephone threat was made, thanks to intensive investigations and cooperation with the German police and the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Canton of Zug, the statement continued.

Picture: Zug Police

The investigations are continuing
The background to the threat, which eventually turned out to be a false alarm, is still unclear. During the police operation, the Industriestrasse as well as the Terrassenweg were closed. Members of the Volunteer Fire Brigade of the City of Zug (FFZ), as well as employees of the Zug Ambulance Service, the Zurich Forensic Institute, the Cantonal Police Zurich and the Zug Police were on duty. Explosives detection dogs from the Zurich Cantonal Police and specialists from the Zurich Forensic Institute were deployed during the search of the property.