14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s headquarters in Munich, Germany, are currently being evacuated, after the software giant received a threatening call earlier today.
According to reports coming from German media, the police have already evacuated the building and are currently searching for bombs with specially trained dogs. Details are missing for now, but it appears that approximately 1,800 employees were in the buildings at the moment when the bomb threat was received.
German newspaper Süddeutsche writes that the call was received at 12:06pm local time (11:06 GMT), and Microsoft’s building administrators immediately alerted the police, who decided to evacuate the building.
This isn’t the first time when the Redmond-based software giant is targeted by a bomb threat, as similar calls had been received by other subsidiaries in Europe.
Back in March 2013, the company’s headquarters in Athens received a similar call, so all offices in the northern suburb of Maroussi were evacuated, as police searched for explosives with trained dogs. It all proved to be a fake call, and chances are this is the case this time too.
Another incident happened in Greece in 2012, when a group of attackers smashed the front doors with a van and threw an incendiary device in the building, but no one was injured.
Update: This is a photo tweeted by @oliverdasgupta with Microsoft employees being evacuated by police forces.
