Germany is on high alert with its anti-terror police making 13 raids across the country in response to an "imminent terror threat". Searches took place in areas including Thuringia, Hamburg, North Rhine -Westphalia, Saxony and Bavaria. The German interior ministry said it had been alerted by a tip that there was "a potential threat of terrorism" at a refugee centre near Frankfurt. Germany has suffered from a series of attacks this year, heaping pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door immigration policy.
Germany is on high alert with its anti-terror police making 13 raids across the country in response to an "imminent terror threat". Searches took place in areas including Thuringia, 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 attacks this year, heaping pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door immigration policy.