Newspaper quotes Interior Minister: Germany raises security alert to "high threat level"

FRANKFURT, July 18 (Reuters) - Germany is raising its security alert level to a "high threat level" from its previous "general threat level" based on increasing intelligence reports, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday.

  • The newspaper Welt am Sonntag quoted the minister as saying, "This means that the risk of attacks in Germany must be taken into account at all times."

  • He added, "Plans for attacks on our country can be clearly identified."

  • He pointed to the risks threatening German infrastructure, individuals, and institutions.

  • The Interior Ministry has not yet responded to a request for further details.

  • Germany has experienced a number of attacks in the past few years.

  • In a high-profile case, a Saudi doctor was sentenced last month to life imprisonment for killing six and injuring hundreds by driving a rented BMW into crowds at a historic market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg before Christmas 2024.

  • In another case, a German court last year convicted a Syrian national in a 2024 Islamic State-inspired stabbing attack at a festival in the western city of Solingen that killed three and injured 10.


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