Ikea calm after blasts

2011-06-12 14:27

Dresden - Swedish furniture concern Ikea said on Sunday it was not yet taking any additional security measures despite a series of small explosive device attacks at stores in four countries, the latest being in Germany.

Deputy company spokesperson Camilla Meiby told the German Press Agency dpa in Helsingborg, "the security level is already very high in our furniture stores around the world." So the company had decided not to take any additional measures.

Her comment came after a small blast at an Ikea store in Dresden, Germany on Friday evening slightly injured two people and damaged some display items in the kitchen equipment section.

Toward the end of May, similar small devices had gone off in Ikea stores in France, Belgium and The Netherlands.

Meiby said that police investigations so far did not point to a connection between those three explosions and the one in Dresden. She also said the company had not registered any warnings or blackmail attempts.

In Dresden, chief prosecutor Lorenz Hase said on Sunday that investigators would be contacting their colleagues in the other three countries to try to determine if there were any connection in the attacks.

He said police had wrapped up their investigation at the Dresden store and had not come up with any leads.

- SAPA