On the morning of July 14, Prague's Main Railway Station was evacuated due to an anonymous bomb threat. The police reported this on Tuesday morning on social network X, as reported by UNN.
Train traffic was completely halted, and metro trains passed through the "Main Railway Station" without stopping, clarified the press service of the Railway Administration for Emergencies and the Prague Transport Company.
The police also blocked the city highway running past the station building. In the morning, tens of thousands of passengers head to Prague via the Main Railway Station, and tens of thousands of cars pass through the highway daily. "The station has been evacuated. The last trains are arriving at the station, after which the area will be inspected by pyrotechnicians," the police reported on X in the morning.
Around 9:20 a.m., the police reported: "The inspection by pyrotechnicians yielded a negative result, the service dog also found nothing, and everything, including traffic on Wilsonova Street, is returning to normal operation. Now we will search for the perpetrator of spreading a deliberately false report. He faces up to three years in prison."
"The evacuation of the Main Railway Station or part of it due to a bomb threat or the discovery of suspicious luggage is not exceptional. For example, after an anonymous bomb threat, the police evacuated the station in December 2016. The suspect was detained a day later. A man who threatened an explosion at the Main Railway Station in September 2019 was also identified, as well as a woman who reported a similar threat in August 2021. They were later charged with committing a criminal offense related to spreading deliberately false information causing panic," reminds Czech Radio.