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- A large-scale police operation is currently underway around the Federal Palace.
- Because of a car on the Bundesplatz, the square and surrounding streets are currently closed for security reasons, as the Bern canton police write on Twitter.
- In addition, a man was stopped for “suspicious behavior”.
- According to the police, several buildings were evacuated, including the parliament building and the east and west wings of the Federal Palace.
According to the cantonal police, the front part of the National Bank building complex as well as the Valiant Bank and the Berner Kantonalbank were also evacuated. The authorities said it was not yet possible to say how many people were affected.
Members of the Fedpol federal police checked the man and then reported it to the Bern canton police shortly after 2 p.m. This then stopped him, said Isabelle Wüthrich, spokeswoman for the Bern canton police. The Bernese canton police did not provide any further information about the man who was stopped and his “suspicious behavior”. In the tweet, she asks the population to avoid the Bundesplatz on a large scale.
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Numerous emergency vehicles can be seen from the federal media center.
SRF / Philipp Burkhardt
Because there is still a suspicious vehicle on the square, this and surrounding streets are closed to traffic for safety reasons, the police said.
A robot from the Bernese cantonal police went to the suspicious vehicle, as Keystone-SDA reports.
SRF 4 News, February 14, 2023, 4:00 p.m.; baus/stup;schl
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