At a late-night news conference, Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said a friendly foreign intelligence service had warned Germany of an imminent terror attack at midnight by between five and seven suicide bombers planning to blow themselves up at different locations in Munich including the two train stations.
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The Munich Police recommends the citizens to keep away from crowds, as well as to avoid the Munich Central Station and the railway Pasing station.
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Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere thanked Bavarian authorities for their action, warning in a statement that the security situation in Europe and Germany “remains serious in the New Year”.
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Kraus said police could not elaborate on the nature of the threat or who had tipped them off.
“Actual lead that in #Munich a terror attack is planned”.
Munich train stations reopened and trains were running on New Year’s Day, but a warning about Islamic State extremists intending to blow themselves up in the German city remained in place.
However according to a later tweet from the Munich police, both train stations were opened early Friday with a continued police presence. Prosecutors said they were holding the other three for a further 24 hours.
Mr Herrmann called on Munich residents to be cautious, but at the same time not to let terror threats interfere with their normal lives.
The main entrance to the closed central station in Munich is cordoned off on January 1, 2016. At noon, some 100 extra officers were still present in the city. Please observe the instructions of the police!+++ Piece warning the police headquarters Munich +++Due to be taken seriously current indications the Munich police is based on the danger of a terrorist attack in the area of Munich.
“We have examined data relating to these names, but at the moment, we do not know if these names are correct, whether these people exist and where they are”, he said, adding that the suspects were allegedly from Iraq and Syria.
On Wednesday, Belgian authorities canceled a New Year’s Eve firework display, citing fears of a possible attack.
Mr de Maiziere promised that in the future, German security officials would continue to analyse the situation thoroughly and act accordingly.
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Several days after the November 13 Paris attacks, German police called off an worldwide football match at the last minute, evacuating thousands of fans from the stadium over a “serious” bomb threat. The authorities never reported any findings of explosives or concrete attack plans.
