Free Republic

GOETTINGEN – The investigation into threats to poison the local water supply by a man found to be in possession of 50 kilogrammes of cyanide will include the company that supplied the poison, a prosecutor's office spokesman said Thursday. The 32-year-old suspect behind the threats made to administrators in the town of Einbeck, 40 kilometres north of Goettingen, will be examined to determine mental stability. "We are examining whether the company violated the legal regulations in selling the chemical," said prosecutor's office spokesman Hans Hugo Heimgaertner. In letters last April, the suspect had warned that he would poison the water...