MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Police received the phone call at 2:50 a.m. [12:50 GMT] with heavily armed police units arriving at the hotel shortly, Leipziger Volkszeitung reported. Police are blocking all hotel exits and searching cars parked outside. The hotel was not evacuated.
Polizeineinsatz in #Leipzig — Wir sichern zur Zeit Hotel #Fürstenhof in der Innenstadt nach Drohanruf.
— Polizei Sachsen (@PolizeiSachsen) 6 сентября 2016 г.
In July, two lone-wolf attacks were carried out in the Bavarian cities of Ansbach and Wuerzburg, both claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, which is banned in Germany and Russia as well as many other countries.
