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Tensions ease in Munich after train station closures
Security forces in many capitals were on raised alert after a year of militant attacks, the biggest of which killed 130 people in Paris in November and was claimed by Isis.
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The stations were evacuated on Thursday evening and service stopped for around eight hours.
Following last night’s terror warning for Munich, PEGIDA chairman Lutz Bachmann took to Twitter telling those who had welcomed refugees with applause at Munich’s main station to immediately convene there, leading to widespread outrage and indignation across social media.
Two Munich train stations were evacuated late Thursday after German authorities received information from foreign intelligence agencies that five to seven Islamic State militants were planning coordinated attacks in the city.
“We don’t know whether these names are right, whether these people exist, and where they are if they do”, Munich’s police president, Hubertus Andra, said.
German police in the city of Munich have evacuated train stations and warned residents to avoid crowds, fearing a terrorist attack planned for New Year’s Eve.
The newspaper reported the plot involved plans for suicide bombers to detonate explosives at the stations, with others waiting to detonate secondary devices when emergency services arrived at the scene.
Meanwhile, Munich police also thanked the public for “staying calm” in a series of tweets in both English and German.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said: “The situation in Europe and Germany continues to be serious in the New Year”.
Police insisted that the Munich warning had been so credible that they had had no choice but to act, but they acknowledged that they had made no arrests and had not launched a manhunt for specific suspects.
Munich police spokeswoman Elizabeth Matzinger could not confirm the nationalities or the suspected residence of the suspects, or whether a manhunt for identified individuals was underway. “It remains in fact at its highest level, and we are regularly disrupting planned attacks”.
Two stations were shut down about an hour before midnight on New Year’s Eve following advice from a “friendly” country that Daesh (so-called Islamic Sate) militants were planning a suicide bomb attack.
Extra precautions had already been put in place across the continent for New Year’s Eve celebrations, less than two months after Islamist militants carried out a series of bloody attacks in and near Paris.
Bild is reporting that authorities have the names of the suspects after a tip-off.
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Ahead of the celebrations, Belgian police carried out several raids in Brussels and the eastern city of Liege in connection with the alleged plot, with five people still in custody on Friday morning.