Germany upgrades security stance to ‘high threat level’, interior minister tells paper

FRANKFURT, July 18 (Reuters) – 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.