Overview
- An emergency call at 18:35 reported a woman carrying a firearm on an Intercity-Express traveling from Berlin toward Munich.
- State police and the Federal Police precinct in Halle deployed to Bitterfeld Hauptbahnhof and cleared the platform before boarding the train.
- Officers located a phone case on a table in front of a 31-year-old that closely resembled a real pistol and then issued an all-clear.
- The woman cooperated as officers checked her identity, seized the phone case, cited her for a weapons-law violation, and excluded her from further travel.
- No actual weapon or injuries were found, and the incident was resolved on site, according to the Federal Police in Magdeburg.