Terror threat to German trains

“The inquiries go on of course and we will remain watchful”, the spokesperson said, reiterating the law enforcers would issue warnings if they could not completely exclude a danger for the population.

A planned fireworks display in Brussels, Belgium, was canceled Wednesday night over fears of an attack.

Threats were made against the central Hauptbahnhof station and the Pasing station west of the city, Police Chief Hubertus Andrae said.

“The Federal Criminal Authority informed Bavarian police… of indications provided by a friendly intelligence service that the IS was planning an attack tonight at midnight at Munich main rail station and/or Pasing station”, interior minister for the southern state of Bavaria Joachim Herrmann said.

A record number of police officers patrolled the event.

Shortly before Munich rang in the new year, police evacuated the main train station and another one because of the threat of an imminent terror attack by between five and seven militants at different locations in the city.

According to the reports, all three had claimed that a team of Isis-affiliated terrorists was planning to attack the Munich stations using the same tactics as in Paris, when men opened fire on crowds with Kalashnikovs before detonating explosive suicide belts.

French and United States intelligence agencies are said to have named seven Iraqis living in Munich as the potential attackers – and police believe they may be linked to ISIS. “Thanks for staying calm and for your understanding concerning our measures”. “It remains in fact at its highest level, and we are regularly disrupting planned attacks”.

154-a-16-(Sajjan Gohel (SAH’-zhahn GOH’-hehl), director for global security, Asia Pacific Foundation, in AP interview)-“number of occasions”-Security analyst Sajjan Gohel says the terror threat in Munich comes as no surprise”.

European capitals have been on high alert since November when Daesh militants slaughtered 130 people in a series of gun and suicide attacks in Paris, stoking fears they could stage further attacks over the Christmas and New Year holidays. “If on top of that it included names of attackers, I see that as a very solid threat”, he said. Police officers within the southern German city stated in that they had been unable to seek out the suspects & have been not sure in the event in that they have been even within the country.

BRUSSELS Belgian police nabbed five people early on Friday over an alleged New Year plot in Brussels and also arrested a 10th suspect over last month’s attacks in Paris.

Despite those warnings, thousands of people were on the streets of Munich at midnight to welcome the new year with fireworks.