A 35-year-old threatened to use explosives and weapons in Weimar, triggering a major police operation. The man was arrested without resistance on his property on Tuesday, a police spokesman said in the evening. An on-site search by special forces on Wednesday morning should reveal whether there are actually explosives or weapons on the garden property, which has since been secured. In the darkness of the night, such a measure makes little sense, the spokesman added.

According to the information, the police in Weimar received the information in the afternoon that a man was in possession of explosives and weapons and had threatened to use them. The emergency services then surrounded the man's property and finally arrested him temporarily. Nothing was initially known about the motives of the 35-year-old. The police spokesman said there was evidence of mental illness.