German authorities are on high alert for Islamist threats to Europe's most populous country, which has in recent years suffered several attacks. The probe "targets suspects of Chechen origin from the Islamist scene," it later added. The alleged militants of Chechen origin are aged between 23 and 28 and "suspected of having scouted locations for a possible Islamist attack", Berlin police said in a statement. "Based on the current information, there was not yet any concrete danger of an attack," police said. Germany's deadliest attack was a truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that left 12 people dead.

Source: The Local January 14, 2020 09:29 UTC