Overview
- The alarm was triggered at about 7:40 a.m. shortly before the school day began.
- Officers searched the entire campus and reported no indication that a threat existed.
- All students and staff were accounted for at prearranged locations, with plans to return to classrooms after a briefing.
- Assembly points were set up at the Mainzer Stephanskirche and the neighboring Maria Ward School, and a parent contact site was established at the Mainz Zitadelle.
- Willigis-Gymnasium is a long-established boys’ school run by the Diocese of Mainz and shares its site with a Realschule.