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| German police 'arrest man suspected of planning Berlin half-marathon knife attacks' | German police 'arrest man suspected of planning Berlin half-marathon knife attacks' |
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| Police in Germany have reportedly detained four men, one of whom they suspected of planning knife attacks at Berlin's half-marathon on Sunday. | Police in Germany have reportedly detained four men, one of whom they suspected of planning knife attacks at Berlin's half-marathon on Sunday. |
| German newspaper Die Welt said the four suspects were linked to Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist ties who hijacked a truck and ploughed it into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people in total and injuring dozens of others. | German newspaper Die Welt said the four suspects were linked to Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist ties who hijacked a truck and ploughed it into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people in total and injuring dozens of others. |
| In its report, which was unsourced, Die Welt said the main suspect was known to Amri and had planned to stab to death spectators and runners at the half marathon. | |
| The suspect had in his possession two knives which had been especially sharpened for this purpose, the paper said. | |
| German police confirmed arrests in connection with the half-marathon but gave no further details, the dpa news agency reported. | |
| Amri's attack prompted German lawmakers to call for tougher security measures. | |
| No major Islamist militant attack has been carried out in Germany since. | |
| Earlier on Sunday, Germany's interior minister, Horst Seehofer, said the government would do everything possible to protect citizens, but added: "We have again experienced that... absolute security is unfortunately not possible." | |
| Mr Seehofer was speaking in Münster, where a man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant on Saturday, killing two of them before shooting himself dead. | |
| Authorities said the attacker was a 48-year-old German citizen with mental health problems and there was no indication of an Islamist militant connection. | |
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