“At each of these events, the Munich police gets several terror threats”.
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The feared attack in Munich followed an attack in Paris in November that killed 130 people. About 550 emergency personnel have been on the streets & the Munich Hauptbahnhof & Pasing train stations have been evacuated after the tip-off from the foreign safety service, which wasn’t identified.
According to the president of Munich police, Hubertus Andrae, the police would continue to carry out more controls in the urban area in next few days and he asked for understanding.
Germany received a tip that militants from Iraq and Syria were planning attacks in Munich on New Year’s Eve but police have been unable to find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist, Munich’s police chief says. Andrae said so far there hadn’t been any arrests.
Earlier, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told a news conference that Germany had received a tip from another country’s intelligence service that IS planned to attack Munich.
On Dec. 26, police in the Austrian capital Vienna said a “friendly” intelligence service had warned European capitals of the possibility of a shooting or bomb attack before New Year, and that police across the continent had stepped up security measures.
Police in Munich are asking people to stay away from the city’s main train station and a second train station in the city’s Pasing neighbourhood because of the “serious, imminent threat” of an attack. In New York, a 25-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS. “But this year, because of the danger of ISIS (Islamic State), I will spend New Year’s Eve in my home”. Federal authorities said Lutchman met with an FBI informant and purchased supplies, including zip ties, a machete and duct tape.
Belgian police have also arrested five people over an alleged New Year plot in Brussels.
Munich train stations reopened and police lifted an alert of an imminent terrorist attack in the southern German city on January 1, but authorities say the situation remains “serious”.
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