Two days later a Syrian refugee, 21, hacked a pregnant woman to death in Reutlingen and on the same night Mohammed Daleel, 27, injured 12 people when he detonated a rucksack packed with metal shards and screws. Germany is on high alert with its anti - terror police making several raids across the country in response to an " imminent terror threat " . Searches took place in states including Berlin , Hamburg , North Rhine - Westphalia , Saxony and Bavaria . The raids are part of an ongoing investigation into a 28-year - old Russian citizen of Chechen background suspected of preparing " a serious act of violent subversion " warned a police report . Germany has suffered from a series of protests this year , putting pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel 's open - door immigration policy .
Germany is on high alert with its anti - terror police making several raids across the country in response to an " imminent terror threat " . Searches took place in states including Berlin , Hamburg , North Rhine - Westphalia , Saxony and Bavaria . The raids are part of an ongoing investigation into a 28-year - old Russian citizen of Chechen background suspected of preparing " a serious act of violent subversion " warned a police report . Germany has suffered from a series of protests this year , putting pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel 's open - door immigration policy .