REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BERLIN -- German police banned public open-air gatherings in the eastern city of Dresden Monday, citing a terrorist threat against a planned rally by the anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement.

Dresden police had received information from federal and state counterparts indicating a "concrete threat" against the "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident" group.

There had been calls for would-be "assassins to mingle among the protesters... and to murder an individual member of the organising team of the PEGIDA demonstrations", police said in a notice on the 24-hour ban.

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