Germany Raises Security Alert to ‘High Threat Level’, Interior Minister Says

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German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.

Germany is upgrading its security stance to a "high threat level" from a previous "abstract threat level" based on increasing reports ‌and intelligence, the country's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in a German newspaper interview published on Saturday.

"This means that the risk of attacks must be reckoned with at all times ⁠in Germany," he was quoted as telling Welt am Sonntag.

“Plans for attacks against our country are clearly discernible,” he added.

He cited risks to German infrastructure, individuals and institutions.

Germany has seen a number of attacks in recent years. In ‌one ⁠prominent case, a Saudi doctor was sentenced to life in prison last month for killing six people and injuring hundreds by ramming a rented BMW into crowds at a ⁠historic market in the eastern city of Magdeburg days before Christmas in 2024.

In another episode, a German court last ⁠year found a Syrian citizen guilty of an Islamic State-inspired 2024 stabbing attack at a festival ⁠in the western city of Solingen in which three people were killed and 10 others injured.

Source: Reuters



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