German special police stand in front of the Munich, southern Germany, main train station Thursday evening, December 31, 2015 after police warned of “imminent threat” of terror attack and ordered two train stations to be cleared.
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Threats were made against the central Hauptbahnhof station and the Pasing station west of the city, Police Chief Hubertus Andrae said.
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“We received names. We can’t say if they are in Munich or in fact in Germany”, Mr Andrae said.
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A spokesman said the force had received two “concrete” pieces of information about a possible attack and warned that other locations could still be targeted despite the train station evacuations.
Police in Munich are searching for a suspected terror cell of up to seven Syrians and Iraqis believed to have planned to carry out the suicide bombing, although no one has yet been arrested and it is unclear whether possible suspects are on the loose. “We don’t know whether these names are right, whether these people exist, and where they are if they do”, Andrae told reporters.
Police, including some in riot gear, were stationed overnight at the entrances to the station.
Munich’s main train station had been closed off in addition to a train station in the western borough of Pasing after foreign and domestic intelligence services had tipped off police of a suspected IS suicide attack for New Year’s Eve.
“In the new year the situation will remain very serious”, de Maiziere told daily newspaper Bild. The game had been scheduled within a week of the November 13 attacks on Paris, in which 130 people died; the German national team were in Paris that night, too, losing 2-0 to France in a friendly.
It is important to state that cities across Europe have been on edge since the terror attacks in Paris in November which killed 132 people.
Meanwhile, Munich police also thanked the public for “staying calm” in a series of tweets in both English and German.
Metropolitan Police spokeswoman Superintendent Jo Edwards said: “We’re mindful of what’s going on in other cities and across the world, we’re linked into the intelligence services, but there is no specific intelligence about the event in London tonight”. Several cities, including Brussels, Paris and Moscow, scaled back their New Year celebrations.
Citing anonymous security sources, Bavarian state broadcaster BR reported that Germany had received warnings from both USA and French intelligence agencies earlier in the day.
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In Brussels, authorities canceled the city’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display as a precaution amid fears of a militant attack. Belgian police said late Thursday that three people were being held for questioning as part of an investigation into an alleged plot.
