German city on lockdown as armed police launch operation against planned terror attack
Source: The Independent
Part of a German city is on lockdown during a police operation to stop a suspected terror plot.
Police said they blew open a door as searches continued in Chemnitz but the suspect behind the threat has not been found.
Scores of armed officers evacuated residents and cordoned off large areas of the Fritz Heckert district on Saturday morning.
A spokesperson for Saxony Police said: "We are carrying out a large operation in Chemnitz following suspicion of preparations for a bomb attack...a person of interest could not be found."
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Hundreds of police including specialist commandos combed a residential area of the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Saturday for a man suspected of planning a bomb attack, after failing to find him in a raid on an apartment.
The deployment followed a tip-off from the domestic intelligence service, though the "where, when, how and why" of the planned attack remained unclear, said Tom Bernhardt, spokesman for the Saxony state criminal investigation office.
Police found traces of explosives in the apartment in the Fritz-Heckert neighborhood, Bernhardt said. They asked local residents to remain indoors.
"The cordoned-off area is so wide that we can almost rule out a threat to the local population," he said.
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Grenzschutzgruppe 9 der Bundespolizei (Border Protection Group 9 of the Federal Police), commonly abbreviated GSG 9, is a German counter-terrorism, hostage rescue and special operations police unit.
