Celle Hole
Celle Hole (
The secret services used a stolen
The action should have taken place one night earlier when twelve secret service officers, one GSG 9 demolition squad officer and Jürgen Wiehe, a civil servant in the Ministry of the Interior of the state of Lower Saxony, waited for the right moment to detonate the bomb on July 24. But they had to interrupt the action since two lovers coming from the nearby funfair entered the danger area. So the action was deferred.
On July 25, 1978, at 2.54 a.m., the bomb was detonated at the outer prison wall, but caused minor damage. No inmate was able to escape. The Mercedes was later caught in Salzgitter (80 km away) in a police roadblock, with the driver having already escaped. The false passports and some ammunition were found in the car.
In Celle, a 1.5-square-meter hole, named the Celle Hole (Celler Loch), was left in the outer prison wall. A handgun, model
References
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- Christa Ellersiek, Wolfgang Becker: Das Celler Loch. Die Hintergründe der Aktion Feuerzauber. Verlag am Galgenberg, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-925387-30-7
- http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2007/05/09/a0046
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090430095753/http://www.zeit.de/1987/25/Feuerzauber-mit-dunklen-Figuren