West Java Regional Police Ensure Men Terrorizing Banks In Majalengka Don't Bring Bombs

A man who threatens to detonate a bomb is tied to a field pole in Majalengka Regency, West Java, Monday, May 23. (Instagram @infomjlk)

MAJALENGKA - Police confirmed that the man who threatened to detonate a bomb at a bank in Majalengka Regency, West Java, Monday, May 23, did not carry a bomb. . What was found on the perpetrator's body was an item that only resembled a bomb. "It's just plastic that is constructed as if it were a bomb, there is a cable. So when we checked it, it turned out to be plastic," said Ibrahim in Bandung, West Java, quoted from Antara. , Monday 23 May.

Even so, the man was still detained by police officers and taken to the Majalengka Police Station for examination. From the interim examination, the perpetrator did this for economic reasons.

The incident took place at a bank on Monday, at around 14.00 WIB. The man threatened to detonate a bomb if the bank employee did not give him Rp30 million.

"From the suspect's statement, he conveyed that he was stressed because of money, so the motive was economic," he said. The police are still investigating the case to apply the criminal article to the man who made the threats. "Yes, it has been secured, further investigation will be carried out first, now it has been examined at the police station," he concluded.