Overview
- Querfurt’s civil-protection siren and a loudspeaker announcement were unexpectedly triggered shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday, which the city labeled a false alarm.
- The Polizeiinspektion Halle opened initial inquiries, and the state criminal police (LKA) later assumed the investigation and contacted Querfurt officials.
- Investigators are securing evidence and checking whether the siren technology was manipulated or otherwise interfered with.
- The LKA currently considers a technical connection to Halle’s earlier incident unlikely because the two municipalities use different systems.
- About a week earlier in Halle, all operational sirens sounded for roughly 15 minutes with a message warning of an armed attacker, which the city attributes to a suspected cyberattack, and the LKA says no other similar cases in the state are known.