Another explosion shakes Cologne city centre ━ The European Conservative

For the second time in a week, a mysterious explosion has taken place in the German city of Cologne. The explosion took place on Wednesday, September 18, in the early morning in the city center, on Ehrenstrasse, a street full of shops and apartments, according to the police.

The explosion caused a fire, but it was quickly extinguished and no one was injured. The windows of a clothing store were broken and some of the store’s furniture was destroyed. Residents of apartments in the building were woken up by the sound of the explosion at 5 a.m.

Police said they were “on scene with a large contingent of officers” and that “we have closed off the area.” They urged the public to avoid the area near the explosion site.

The location is just a few hundred metres from the scene of another explosion that occurred just two days ago. That incident took place outside a nightclub, with a member of the cleaning staff injured when debris fell. Police are searching for a man identified on CCTV cameras in connection with Monday’s explosion after he was seen earlier placing a burning blue bag at the scene.

Authorities have not indicated whether there is a connection between the two incidents, but the newspaper said Imagethe researchers Doing suspect a connection. In both cases a similar explosive was used.

There have been a series of small explosions in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Cologne is located, in recent months. The explosions, which included the blowing up of ATMs, occurred outside residential and commercial buildings in the cities of Düsseldorf, Solingen, Engelskirchen and Duisburg, as well as in Cologne.

Criminal gangs and drug cartels from the Netherlands, which borders North Rhine-Westphalia, may have been involved. As Michael Mertens, head of the state department of the GdP police union, said:

The Dutch drug mafia has been here for a long time. North Rhine-Westphalia is an important location as a transport hub. What you have to realize is that these perpetrators are extremely brutal.

The crimes are believed to have been committed by the so-called “Mocro-mafia”, whose members are considerably more violent than the criminal groups and Arab clans in Germany. The term “Mocro-mafia” was adopted by the media in both the Netherlands and Germany for several organized crime groups that originally emerged from the Dutch Moroccan community in the 1990s.

German police have warned of Dutch organised crime networks moving to Germany.