Germany remained on high alert Friday after police received a “concrete” threat of terror attacks on two train stations in Munich during the height of the New Year’s Eve celebrations.
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Two train stations in Munich were evacuated shortly after it rang in the New Year when a call was received with a terror warning about ISIS and possible bomb attacks. He would not give any further details on the possible attackers.
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More than 500 police and special unit officers from all over the southern Bavaria region were called to Munich Thursday night to help evacuate and secure the stations.
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In the early hours of the morning, Munich Police confirmed the stations have since been reopened.
The station closures capped a tense week in cities across Europe as warnings of planned terrorist atrocities soured the public mood and put a damper on the usually joyous and carefree New Year’s Eve celebrations. Germany’s Bild newspaper reported that the attacks were to take place in two waves with the second detonations coming as rescuers arrived at the scene to treat victims.
Authorities were investigating intensively, Mr Herrmann said, but so far had not made any arrests.
“The Bavarian authorities acted prudently, calmly and decisively, with the support of the federal police”, Germany’s interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said.
Police officials in Munich were quoted in German media reports saying that suspects may have been deployed in pairs to detonate their suicide attacks at different locations.
“At the moment, we still have around 1,000 security additional officers on duty”, Hubertus Andrae, the Munich police chief, said at a press conference.
Most people in Munich and elsewhere in the world went ahead with their plans for despite the terror threat, enjoying fireworks all over the city at midnight.
German authorities said Friday that five to seven people might have been involved in the terrorist threat.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann revealed that the crucial tip-off had come from France, as he underlined that “the French do not make up this sort of information”.
Resemblance In that regard, the events in Munich bear a striking resemblance to an incident in November when authorities in Hannover chose to cancel a friendly football match between Germany and Netherlands just 90 minutes before kick-off.
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The alarm came as Europe entered the New Year under a state of heightened alert, seven weeks after Islamist militants killed 130 people in shootings and suicide blasts across Paris. Police detained six people on Thursday for questioning over an alleged plot to strike “emblematic sites” in Brussels during the year-end festivities.
