Cologne under pressure: 20,000 people evacuated in the event of great bombing!

Cologne under pressure: 20,000 people evacuated in the event of great bombing!

What a turbulent day in Cologne! Today, on June 4, 2025, the planned defusing of three bomb blind pendants from the Second World War ensures an enormous evacuation effort in the Deutz district. An estimated 20,000 inhabitants must leave their apartments and workplaces to support the security measures around the dangerous contaminated sites. As Wetterauer Zeitung , there are numerous important facilities on the evacuation list, including around 60 hotels, one hospital and several Museums.

The radius of the evacuation zone includes some of the city's most central points, including the Hohenzollern, Deutzer and Severinsbrücke that lead over the Rhine. The Cologne-Deutz train station will also be affected, which affects the city shipping and train traffic to the main train station. The police and the regulatory office will carry out the evacuation campaigns that could be the largest since World War II.

Special precautions for the population

The measures are far -reaching. Patients in the Eduardus Hospital must be placed within the house; Around 150 people, including ten in the intensive care unit, are part of this rescheduling. Around 1,000 patients were released on the weekend before the mission. The exact evacuation zone extends over a radius of about 300 meters around the site near the Leiblplatz, where a five hundredweight bomb was discovered, such as RTL " West reported.

A special focus is also on Cologne traffic companies, who expect considerable restrictions due to the closures of the light rail and bus lines. The KVB strongly recommends that the citizens avoid the city center on the day of evacuation.

RTL and other media affected

The effects are far-reaching, even the RTL broadcasting center must be cleared. Therefore, the spectator and news landscape does not remain unaffected: the broadcast "Point 8" is eliminated, while the two news formats "point 6" and "point 7" are sent live from Cologne. Other programs, including "point 12" and "RTL current", are moved to Berlin, and exciting formats such as "explosive" are recorded in advance. For RTL Germany, this is already the second evacuation within a short time after the company had to evacuate in April 2024 during "point 12" due to similar reasons, which underlines the urgency of the situation.

Those responsible appeal to the citizens of adhering to the security measures that are inevitable for everyone. In addition, a citizens' phone was set up through which information about evacuation can be obtained.

In plain language: In Cologne it says today that "Security is going on!", And everyone should be aware of the situation, because the risk of blind bombs is not new in the metropolis. Experts estimate that hundreds of such dangers were still slumbering in the ground, which makes future operations of the bomb clearers necessary, as well as Tagesschau Fixed.