Overview
- An explosive device detonated at the entrance of a premises on Thomas-Mann-Straße in Frankfurt’s Niederursel district overnight, causing extensive damage.
- Police say the device was deliberately placed at the site and report no injuries.
- Detectives are evaluating whether the blast is connected to recent explosions and arson attacks on bars and private homes across the region.
- In August, a Dutch juvenile was arrested after a fire attack on a café in Frankfurt-Bockenheim; in July an incendiary device was set off at an Offenbach pizzeria, and in Taunusstein an 18-year-old from the Netherlands was detained after two attacks on a house façade.
- Security authorities have warned of a “crime as a service” model in which organized-crime actors pay predominantly Dutch youths to carry out such offenses.