Security stepped up NATO base due to ‘potential threat’

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Security stepped up NATO base due to ‘potential threat’

Security at a NATO air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence pointing to a “potential threat”, and all staff not essential to missions have been sent home as a precaution.

The Geilenkirchen air base, near the border with the Netherlands, is where the alliance’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft are based.

A post on the NATO AWACS fleet’s social media account announced that “we raised the security level” but did not elaborate on the potential threat.

It said operations “continue as planned”.

******* news agency DPA said a reporter saw police cars in the grounds of the air base.

Police confirmed a deployment on Thursday night but gave no details, and offered no information on Friday morning.

Last week, a major ******* air force base near Cologne was locked down for several hours amid fears that its water supply might have been tampered with.

An investigation found no evidence of sabotage.

There were also reports of suspicious observations at Geilenkirchen and a person was briefly detained for questioning near the base, DPA reported at the time, but there turned out to be nothing untoward.

The incidents come at a time of jitters about the possible vulnerability of infrastructure to Russian sabotage.

On Thursday, prosecutors in Flensburg, in Germany’s far north, said they were investigating suspicions of espionage for the purpose of sabotage, without elaborating on who might be behind it.

******* media reported that drones had been spotted over a chemical park in Brunsbuettel, on the North Sea coast.

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