Munich terror threat remains in place, but train stations open again

Police, including some in riot gear, were stationed overnight at the entrances to the station.

Munich’s central station and Pasing station reopened several hours later after intelligence from another country, believed to be France, could not be substantiated.

Mr Andrae said so far there had not been any arrests. Those details included names and referred to both Syrian and Iraqi nationals, the chief said. “We don’t know whether these names are right, whether these people exist, and where they are if they do”, Andrae told reporters. “It’s a bit weird though that we have a terrorist warning and people are firing off their fireworks”.

Some 550 police officers were deployed to hunt down the suspects and secure the city, with authorities warning that the threat remains “high”.

A suspected terrorist attack led to the evacuation of two major railway stations in Munich on Thursday.

German officials said Friday they had information indicating the Islamic State group was planning a suicide bomb attack on New Year’s Eve in the southern city of Munich. Investigators have not been able to find suspects or further clues to shore up the tip. He said they had received personal data for some of the attackers and were still in the process of investigating and verifying the information.

Federal interior minister Thomas de Maizière defended the heightened alert in one of Germany’s largest cities.

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.

The top security official in Germany’s Bavaria region says there are no longer any “concrete indications” of a terror threat at any specific location.

“In the future, the security authorities will analyse the situation thoroughly and take appropriate measures consistent”.

In Russia, the state-run news agency RIA Novosti said that about 500 people had been evacuated from two train stations in Moscow after the police were told that bombs had been planted.

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

Various German media outlets, including the regional broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk and the state broadcaster ZDF, cited anonymous sources inside the security services as saying the police had received three similar intelligence tipoffs from French intelligence services in recent weeks, and that they had been dismissed as not credible.

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