Photo: DPAGerman police were searching Sunday for possible contacts of an Isis fighter believed to be behind a terror plot against a major shopping mall. Authorities had ordered the Limbecker Platz mall in the central city of Essen shut on Saturday over "concrete information regarding a possible attack". Separately, police in the southwestern city of Offenburg were deployed late on Saturday after a "possible threat of attack", citing a local disco as a potential target. Germany is on high alert since last December's attack in Berlin, when a Tunisian national hijacked a truck and rammed it into a crowd, killing 12 people. Domestic security officials estimate there are some 10,000 radical Islamists in Germany, with roughly 1,600 among them suspected of being capable of violence.

Source: The Local March 12, 2017 15:22 UTC