(Credit: Reuters)

German police said they have detained several people in Berlin who they suspect of planning a crime linked to Sunday's half-marathon, and newspaper Die Welt said one was suspected of planning a knife attack at the popular event. “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 wrote in a joint statement. The six were detained Sunday, the day of the race, and daily Die Welt reported police foiled a plot to attack race spectators and participants with knives. The newspaper said the four men were linked to Anis Amri, a Tunisian man with Islamist militant ties who killed 12 people in an attack in Berlin in December 2016 when he hijacked a truck and drove it into a crowded marketplace. Special police forces detained four men in connection with the race plot, the paper said — different from the six that police reported. German police detain several people in Berlin who they suspect of planning a crime linked to Sunday's half-marathon, with newspaper Die Welt saying one was suspected of planning a knife attack at the popular event. German news agency dpa reported that police confirmed arrests in connection with the half-marathon, but gave no further details.
German authorities arrest six men aged 18 to 21 suspected of planning a terror attack on today's Berlin Half Marathon.