FRANKFURT, July 18 (Reuters) - Germany is upgrading its security stance to a "high threat level" from a previous"abstract threat level" based on increasing reports and intelligence, the country's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in a German newspaper interview published on Saturday.• "This means that the risk of attacks must be reckoned with at all times in Germany," he was quoted as telling Welt am Sonntag.• “Plans for attacks against our country are clearly discernible,” he added.• He cited risks to German infrastructure, individuals and institutions.

Der Innenminister sieht Deutschland im Fadenkreuz fremder Mächte. Mit neuen Befugnissen sollen Geheimdienste gegen Anschläge und Spionage vorgehen. Einen Durchbruch gab es nach…

In Deutschland ist laut Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt jederzeit mit dem Risiko von Anschlägen zu rechnen. Die Befugnisse der Geheimdienste will er ausweiten.