Police in Munich warned of “serious, imminent threat” of a terror attack late Thursday and asked people to stay away from the city’s main train station and a second train station in the city’s Pasing neighborhood.
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Munich’s central station and Pasing station reopened several hours later after intelligence from another country, believed to be France, could not be substantiated.
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Regional public television Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) reported that the intelligence concerning possible Daesh attacks in Munich first came from USA authorities on Thursday night and soon after French intelligence service conveyed similar information to their German counterparts.
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However, it is learnt that Mr Salodia was never a favourite for the highest office of the state bureaucracy because of an ongoing anti corruption bureau case against him.
Police were performing sweeps of the stations but so far no arrests have been made and nothing suspicious has been found.
The shutting down of the stations added to jitters in many capitals as Europe ushered in the New Year with heightened security after a year of militant attacks, the biggest of which killed 130 in Paris in November.
Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said police received intelligence the group was planning a massacre with five to seven suicide bombers as revelers welcomed in the New Year.
The Munich alarm followed days of security warnings in Europe.
European capitals have been on high alert over the holidays, with both Brussels and Paris scrapping the traditional fireworks show for their respective New Year celebrations.
Authorities on Wednesday called off the usual New Year’s Eve fireworks display in the capital, citing fears of a possible militant attack. Police said on Thursday they were holding three people for questioning over an alleged plot.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere thanked all involved authorities for their “thoughtful, considerate and decisive” action in Munich on New Year’s Eve.
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Meanwhile, security was stepped up in Berlin as one million people saw in 2016 at the Brandenburg Gate.
