German Social Democrats evacuate party HQ after bomb threat
BERLIN- Germany@@@s Social Democrats (SPD) evacuated their headquarters building in Berlin on Tuesday after a bomb threat the party said was linked to its Chairman Sigmar Gabriel@@@s visit to a town where anti-foreigner violence has erupted.Yasmin Fahimi, the SPD@@@s general secretary, said that the centre-left party that shares power with Chancellor Angela Merkel@@@s conservatives received many threats with racist overtones after Gabriel visited the eastern town of Heidenau on Monday."Since Sigmar Gabriel@@@s visit to Heidenau, the Willy-Brandt-Haus has received a flood of racist threats," Fahimi said in a statement, referrring to the headquarters. "We@@@ve got to assume that this is a political act. Let us be clear about this: the SPD won@@@t back down from its stance."More than 30 police were injured in clashes in Heidenau, near Dresden, early on Saturday when a mob of several hundred people, many of them drunk, began pelting officers with bottles and fireworks. Some shouted "Heil Hitler".Gabriel had said in Heidenau that Germany would not "give a single millimetre to these far-right mobs" and added those in Heidenau attacking refugees "have nothing to do with Germany. This is not the Germany we want."ByREUTERS06/08/2025 07:57 AMByREUTERS06/08/2025 05:36 AMByMAARIV06/07/2025 02:33 PMByWALLA!06/07/2025 11:18 AMByREUTERS06/07/2025 03:25 AM
