Berlin - A race against time across cyberspace led Berlin police to avert a possible murder attempt on a teacher. Officers swooped on a school in the southern suburbs of the German capital to arrest one of two teenage boys who claimed to be behind a macabre boast to an Internet chat forum. The police arrived just before the predicted murder attempt.
The night before, a chatroom user had indicated that he and an accomplice would murder their teacher the next day. The threat was seen by an employee of an Internet service provider in the southern German town of Augsburg who alerted police.
