No arrests have been made, and German officials have since said there is no sign of any imminent attack-although police continue to be out in force in Munich itself.
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Citing concern over news of the possible ISIS terror threat, received a short time before the celebrations were to begin, police immediately evacuated the main central train station in Munich along with a smaller commuter station eight kilometers away in the district of Pasing.
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A police spokeswoman said it could not be ruled out that the attackers could seek another target.
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Police advised revelers not to come to the fireworks display without a ticket and to be ready to have their belongings searched. Horns blared and crowds cheered as the tower was then lit up with fireworks, with colours shifting from green to red to white.
“The Federal Criminal Police Office informed the Bavarian police on New Year’s Eve of the existence of a tip-off from a friendly intelligence agency that Islamic State plans a concrete attack”, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrman reportedly said, at a news conference earlier Friday, without naming the intelligence agency. Workers dismantled the stage where the New Year’s show was to go on after the arrest of two men suspected of planning holiday attacks.
The militant group had planned to use suicide bombers in the attack, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said.
The stations have re-opened this morning, but Munich police are warning people to remain vigilant.
The warning came shortly before the city celebrated the start of the new year.
German police on duty at the main railway station in central Munich.
Cities across Europe have been on edge since a terror attack in Paris in November killed 130 people.
The threat involved suicide attacks on trains, prompting station closures.
The city’s police said they had called in reinforcements from southern Bavaria and special police units were already operating in the city.
Regional broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk said the suspects were seven Iraqis living in Munich who were allegedly planning to work in pairs and blow themselves up at the two stations as well in other parts of the city.
Munich Police also tweeted: “Current indications that a terrorist attack is planned”.
The Austrian capital Vienna has also raised its terror level in recent days after receiving intelligence pointing at an imminent risk while police in Germany’s capital Berlin did not allow revelers to approach the Brandenburg Gate with bag packs or large bags.
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Belgian authorities cancelled all of the New Year festivities in Brussels while fireworks at Paris’ Champs-Elysees were called off. Police said on Thursday they were holding three people for questioning over an alleged plot.
