Officials warn of terrorist plots

German authorities called for increased vigilance against possible terrorist assaults and said the kind of threat detected before the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States had resurfaced.

Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said suicide attacks were possible in Germany. The situation recalled the summer of 2001, “when obscure threats surfaced which, as we know, became reality,” said Deputy Interior Minister August Hanning.

“We are seeing evidence that some action is planned in [the Afghanistan and Pakistan region] but also farther afield, in Europe and in the United States,” Hanning said in Berlin.

He said he didn’t think there was any reason to panic.