Police Announce Cancellation of Parade in Germany Due to Terror Threat
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Armin Lehnhoff/iStock/Thinkstock(BRUNSWICK, Germany) — Police in Brunswick, Germany, announced the cancellation of a parade scheduled for Sunday due to a terror threat.
The Brunswick police announced Sunday that the carnival procession known as Schoduvel was cancelled after “reliable state security sources had announced the tangible danger of an attack by Islamist radicals.” Additionally, police are asking all visitors to avoid the parade’s planned path, or if possible avoiding traveling to Brunswick.
The decision to cancel the parade was agreed to by police, Mayor Ulrich Markurth and parade marshal Gerhard Baller.
The cancellation of Schoduvel comes just one day after a pair of shootings in Copenhagen, Denmark that left two dead and five injured. Those attacks, accord to Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt were “politically motivated…and thereby…a terrorist attack.”
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