(DPA) Islamists have used social networks to call for attacks, including during the Cologne carnival, Martin Lotz, head of the Cologne police’s carnival operations, told dpa.
He said that these kinds of statement[s] also aimed at unsettling the population and that the police’s operational concept will be adapted again as the region prepares for days of festivities.
An Islamic State website shows a poster with four targets, two of which are in Cologne, one in Nuremberg and one in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.
“We have no knowledge of any specific attack plans or any specific threat. This does not change our previous plans,” said a spokeswoman for the Nuremberg police.
