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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   German police order large mall to stay closed after attack threat   
      
      
   Police ordered a shopping mall in the western German city of Essen not   
   to open Saturday after receiving credible tips of an imminent attack.   
      
   The shopping center and the adjacent parking lot stayed closed as about a   
   hundred police officers positioned themselves around the compound to make sure   
   nobody could enter the mall. Several officers scoured the inside of the   
   building to bring out early    
   morning cleaning staff.   
      
   "As police, we are the security authority here and have decided to close the   
   mall," police spokesman Christoph Wickhorst said, adding that they had been   
   tipped off late Friday by other security agencies. He did not want to provide   
   further details because    
   of the ongoing investigation.   
      
   The downtown mall at Limbecker Platz square will be closed for the entire day.   
   The mall is one of the biggest in Germany with more than 200 stores, according   
   to the shopping center's website.   
      
   In 2016, three people were injured in an attack on a Sikh temple in Essen by   
   radicalized German-born Muslim teenagers.   
      
   Germany has been on the edge following a series of attacks in public places   
   over the past year.   
      
   Most recently, a mentally disturbed man attacked travelers with an ax at the   
   central train station in the west German city of Dusseldorf Thursday, injuring   
   seven people before he was captured.   
      
   Ax attacks are not unheard of in Germany. Last July, a 17-year-old Afghan   
   refugee injured five people on a regional train in the central town of   
   Wurzburg before he was killed by police. The refugee later claimed in a video   
   to be acting on behalf of ISIS.   
      
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