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Cops were investigating a suspicious package found at the chancellery building in capital Berlin.

Ministers were scheduled to have a cabinet meeting when the package was discovered on Wednesday morning.

Four plastic yellow postal crates were seen in the cordoned off area, according to witnesses.

A spokesman for Germany's Federal Police said: "We are investigating a suspicious package."

Detectives later confirmed nothing was found in the package and the all clear was given.

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In 2010, police intercepted a packaged containing explosives sent from Greece to Merkel's office in Berlin.

The incident comes hours after Merkel slammed the 'disgusting' sex attacks on women by a huge gang of men in the city of Cologne on New Year's Eve.

She is said to have expressed her "outrage over these disgusting attacks and sexual assaults" following at least 90 criminal complaints.