Adventure park in Bottrop evacuated after bomb threat

1,000 visitors had to leave the "Halloween Horror Festival" of the Movie Park on Friday evening. At night, the police gave the all clear.

After a bomb threat, the police cleared a theme park in Bottrop on Friday evening. About 11,000 people would have left the grounds of Movie Park Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia, said a spokeswoman for the German Press Agency. A caller contacted Movie Park in the late afternoon and talked about signs of a threat. "The caller himself did not threaten," she said.

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An acute danger was not apparent, it was initially. At night, the police gave the all-clear: On the site, nothing suspicious was found on Friday night. The investigation revealed that "the content was fictitious in the warning call". "Background of the call and the warning could be that due to private disputes the MovieParks visitors should be spoiled the evening," wrote the police.

Whether the caller to the employees of the park or the police have made to recognize, the spokeswoman for educational reasons initially did not say. The investigation continued during the night.

As a precaution, the park was closed to visitors. Only when there were no more visitors to the site, the police announced the reason for the evacuation. The visitors reacted quietly and with discipline to the calls of the emergency services and loudspeaker announcements, which called for leaving the park, it was said.

Shortly before 9 pm on Friday evening there were no more guests on the site, where a "Halloween Horror Festival" with "scary attractions and shows" was on the program that evening. The Movie Park in the Kirchhellen district is a seasonal amusement park with a focus on film.