Police in Munich warn of ‘imminent threat’ of attack

“We’re under attack by IS around the world and we’ve got to take this as a serious threat”, said Herrmann, who is responsible for the police in all of Bavaria.

Officials said they were tipped off about an imminent attack in the southern German city shortly before midnight as Europe prepared to ring in the New Year in an atmosphere of unprecedented security. “Please avoid gatherings of people and the Munich and Pasing train stations”, police said in a tweet.

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He added: “It’s a bit weird, though, that we have a terrorist warning and people are firing off their fireworks”. Munich’s main station and Pasing station reopened in the morning.

But a Munich police spokesman said on Friday: “The situation has not eased and the terror alert remains”.

The interior minister of Bavaria told reporters that the government had received leads pointing to a group of five to seven potential IS sympathizers plotting several coordinated suicide attacks in the Bavarian capital.

In an apparent effort to allay those concerns, Germany said on Thursday it would start holding personal hearings for asylum seekers from Syria as of Friday, reversing a policy of granting nearly automatic refugee status for Syrians.

It was the second time in recent weeks that German authorities have taken dramatic measures in response to a terror threat received by the intelligence services. Friday noon, some 100 extra officers were still present in the city.

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“Current indications show that a terror attack is being planned in Munich“.

Mr de Maiziere promised that in the future, German security officials would continue to analyse the situation thoroughly and act accordingly.

Throughout the Munich alert, police kept up a stream of messages in several languages on Twitter, at times alternating incongruously between security warnings and New Year greetings.

Days after the 13 November attacks in Paris, a football friendly between Germany and Holland in Hanover was cancelled 91 minutes before kick-off after police received “concrete information” of a planned attack in the stadium.

Regional public television Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) reported that the intelligence concerning possible Daesh attacks in Munich first came from USA authorities on Thursday night and soon after French intelligence service conveyed similar information to their German counterparts.

Cities across Europe have been on edge since the Isis attacks in Paris in November which killed 130 people.

Police have been deployed to the city centre and two city train stations, including the central one, which were shut down in the final hours of 2015 after police, acting on a foreign intelligence tip, issued a terrorism warning. The threat was considered credible and included names of “about half” of the suspects.

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