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A woman wearing a pomegranate-shaped belt loop on a train from Barcelona to Madrid caused extensive damage on Wednesday, forcing evacuation of stations and delays.
Barcelona police said they had been informed by security personnel at the city's main Sants metro station "that they had seen an object on the scanner that could be an explosive artifact," a spokesman said. say to AFP.
A photo of the luggage scan published on the Mossos police's Twitter feed in Catalonia clearly showed what looked like a grenade.
Most Spanish train stations require train passengers to carry their luggage in scanners.
The police then evacuated two high-speed trains to Barcelona station but found nothing, the spokesman said.
"Then we saw that this person could be on a train to Madrid, we warned the national police," he added.
People were then evacuated from the main Atocha station in the Spanish capital, told AFP the public company Adif, which runs the country's railway stations.
Police said they created a security zone on part of the platform of the train station, site of one of the worst terrorist attacks in Europe in 2004, during which 191 people were killed in an explosion in a suburban train.
When the train arrived, they checked the luggage and found that the grenade-shaped object was actually a "belt buckle," said a police spokeswoman.
Why did the security personnel in Barcelona let the passenger get on the train if he was worried about the potential grenade?
Adif told AFP that they were investigating this incident.
A screenshot of the scanner, obtained on November 7, 2018 on the Mossos D'Esquadra police's Twitter account, shows a pomegranate-shaped belt buckle in a passenger suitcase at the train station. Sants.
