Six men have been detained in connection with could have been a terror attack during Berlin’s half-marathon on Sunday.
“There were isolated indications that those arrested, aged between 18 and 21 years, were participating in the preparation of a crime in connection with this event,” prosecutors and police said in a joint statement Sunday afternoon.
Berlin police said the men were detained after searches in the Berlin districts of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Neukoelln.
Germany’s Die Welt first reported that one man detained had planned to carry out a knife attack on participants and spectators.
The German newspaper also reported that four men had connections to Anis Amri, a Tunisian who killed 12 people and injured dozens more when he drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin in December 2016.
Amri, who was later killed in a shootout with police, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State — and there has been no Islamic militant attack in Germany since that time.
More than 36,000 athletes participated in Sunday’s half marathon, which was being guarded by a reported 630 police officers.
