‘CLOSE CALL’

German Police Foil Attack on Berlin Half Marathon

A suspect with links to the 2016 Christmas market attacker had reportedly been planning to target spectators with knives.

German police have reportedly thwarted a planned knife attack on spectators at the Berlin Half Marathon. Law enforcement sources cited by the German daily Die Welt on Sunday said four men had been detained, one of whom allegedly wanted to get revenge for Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri. Amri was killed in a shootout with police in Milan after killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others in 2016. German police had earlier conducted raids on several apartments throughout the city, with sharpened knives reportedly discovered at one site. “We're still evaluating [the situation],” an investigative source told Die Welt. “It was probably a close call.”