At around 4.30pm on Wednesday afternoon an area was cordoned off around the Centre de Ressources Autisme de Lorraine (CRA), following a call indicating the presence of a car containing a bomb.
The Direction départementale de la sécurité publique (DDSP - Police) immediately set up a security perimeter in the Metz-Queuleu area, resulting in the closure of Fort de Queuleu street and rue de Vercly.
According to the Lorraine media, a dozen police officers, fifteen firefighters and a bomb disposal team were mobilized on the spot.
The operation that ended shortly after 7pm, and, according to the information provided by Lorraine news services, it was only a hoax.
Investigators are now looking to identify who made the call and are tracing the owner of the line from which the call was made.
